scrivener in English

noun
1
a clerk, scribe, or notary.
His father, a scrivener , had rebelled against his father's Catholicism to become an Anglican (and been disinherited for his apostasy).
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1. 2 synonyms for Copyist: scrivener, scribe

2. 2 synonyms for Copyist: scrivener, scribe

3. Bookends (macOS) allows for scripting which enabled exporting notes into Scrivener (my writing platform) via OPML

4. The action of “Counterparts,” one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories, occurs during a February afternoon and evening in the life of a lawyer’s scrivener in Dublin

5. By many accounts, it was decisive in the selection of Canberra as the site in 1908, as was a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener.

6. Eventually, Bartleby rejects these chores, stares Blankly at an empty wall, and answers all entreaties with, " I should prefer not to." Unable to persuade Bartleby either to work or to leave, the narrator moves to a new office, and the scrivener is taken to prison.