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# scrivener

«scrivener» in Mova's school dictionary: **A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (scriveners); old use

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy documents for other people, a kind of clerk who wrote out legal papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories about law and wills, a writer of papers who works with the lawyer, called an attorney

### examples

- The scrivener wrote the papers by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x1)
- Neither the scrivener nor the lawyer came to the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x2)
- The old scrivener copied the will in neat letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scrivener» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrivener/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.