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# scrivener

noun (scriveners); old use

«scrivener» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

(old use) A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy documents for other people, a kind of clerk who wrote out legal papers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old stories about law and wills, a writer of papers who works with the lawyer, called an attorney

### Examples

- The scrivener wrote the papers by hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x1)
- Neither the scrivener nor the lawyer came to the house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x2)
- The old scrivener copied the will in neat letters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «scrivener» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«scrivener» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/scrivener.html) on Mova free.