amanuensis
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In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018
Despite, or perhaps because of, her privileged role as the headmistress’s amanuensis, Jane is one of the most vociferous voices of dissent against the practice of self-erasure in the name of necromancy.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018
“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014
This shows the confidential nature of the Vavasours' employment as amanuenses by Tresham in such matters.
From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by George Blacker Morgan
Both George and William are confidentially employed by Tresham as amanuenses, in transcribing religious, or treasonable, treatises of the time.
From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by George Blacker Morgan
Thábit, one of the Prophet's amanuenses, who collected the fragments with great difficulty "from bits of parchment, thin white stones, leafless palm-branches, and the bosoms of men."
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
The expense, which must also have been great, is said to have been defrayed by Ambrosius, a wealthy Christian friend, who placed at the disposal of the editor the constant services of seven amanuenses.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
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