Definition of "amanuenses" []

• Plural form of amanuensis. (noun)

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• "Some of them are near-perfect embodiments of the genre which their near word-perfect amanuenses have bodied forth, but that perfection pushes them far away from literature itself …"
• "For example, we learn that Milton's three daughters did not, as legend has it, serve as adoring amanuenses to the blind poet when he was writing "Paradise Lost" but instead were illiterates whose rebellious behavior so infuriated their father that he left them nothing in his will."
• "After a period of time, they were sorted by the amanuenses into alphabetical order and, much later, were either copied or pasted into the manuscript of the Dictionary, with Johnson then adding word-headings, etymologies, definitions, and notes on usage."