readerly
adjEtymology From reader + -ly.
1
Characteristic of readers.
- It+was+an+extraordinary+display+of+true+readerly+love+—+a+bunch+of+buffs+giving+a+contemporary+genre+writer+the+Shakespearean+variorum+treatment+on+their+own+time.2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times:
2
Of or relating to the reader.
- Nevertheless, the dream element and over power to haunt come at a certain readerly price. The poem abounds in passages that will leave an unprepared audience bewildered.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xiii:
- Derived terms
- unreaderly