amanuensis

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

And though the two men are friends Lucas couldn’t have picked a better amanuensis than Abrams, who honors his heroes but doesn’t have it in him to drive a light sabre through their hearts.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

“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

He handed me three letters, all from men who once were slaves, not written by them individually, but by amanuenses.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

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

He had many devoted friends who advised and helped him, acted as his amanuenses, and, as we have seen, shielded him by assuming authorship of his works.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner

A sister from our House, your grandmother urged, would be the very person you needed, and infinitely better suited to the position than the somewhat frivolous young women who very often occupy positions as amanuenses.

From The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton