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<p> A name of Sir [[Walter]] Scott's invention, and employed by him to denote an imaginary character who supplied him with dry preliminary historical details, and since used to denote a writer who treats a historical subject with all due diligence and research, but without any appreciation of the human interest in it, still less the soul of it. </p> | <p> A name of Sir [[Walter]] Scott's invention, and employed by him to denote an imaginary character who supplied him with dry preliminary historical details, and since used to denote a writer who treats a historical subject with all due diligence and research, but without any appreciation of the human interest in it, still less the soul of it. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_72041"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/dryasdust Dryasdust from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_72041"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/dryasdust Dryasdust from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:14, 15 October 2021
Dryasdust [1]
A name of Sir Walter Scott's invention, and employed by him to denote an imaginary character who supplied him with dry preliminary historical details, and since used to denote a writer who treats a historical subject with all due diligence and research, but without any appreciation of the human interest in it, still less the soul of it.
