(n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Example Sentences:
(1) Georges Albert Edouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), one of Charcot's favourite pupils and his self-appointed amanuensis made several valuable contributions to medicine and literature.
(2) A s with so much concerning Kafka – his strange life, and stranger fiction – we are almost compelled to begin with the observations of Max Brod, his friend, sanctifier and – some might argue – crypto-amanuensis.
(3) There is also a growing interest in the life and diary of Sofya Andreevna, who worked as Tolstoy's literary amanuensis.
(4) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” So, according to his tireless amanuensis James Boswell, said Dr Samuel Johnson on the night of 7 April 1775.
(5) Cameron and his amanuensis, George Osborne, clearly did not expect their gamble to fail.
Stenographer
Definition:
(n.) One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.
Example Sentences:
(1) She led protesters on to the stage, and the stenographer’s record of the meeting was destroyed.
(2) Planning was not just the preserve of professionals: parliamentary stenographers, religious groups, architectural critics, authors, musicians, photographers, film-makers all contributed to the collective visions of Britain's possible futures.
(3) A proficient stenographer who had had cerebral metastases suffered from pure alexia for normal print but could still read stenography with ease.
(4) Two possible machines are currently available for English Transcriptions; the Palantype (a British device) and the Stenograph (an American device).
(5) …" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "That young lady may be a stenographer and yet be compelled to warp herself, dressing and acting as if she had all the money in the world."
(6) I shall train as a stenographer to earn extra cash."
(7) Begun in 1912 by John Benjamin Murphy, one of America's surgical giants, the Surgical Clinics initially comprised verbatim stenographic reports of clinical talks given by Dr. Murphy.
(8) Of special interest to us today is the fact that Sullivan arranged to have a stenographer take down a number of his interviews with patients during the years 1926 and 1927.
(9) And yet, in their reactions to the rolling scoops published by the Guardian , the Washington Post , the New York Times and Der Spiegel, many of them seem to have succumbed either to a weird kind of spiteful envy, or to a desire to act as the unpaid stenographers to the security services and their political masters.
(10) Watch out, for the more you reduce his stature as a stenographer, the greater you make him as a writer, as a creator.'"
(11) He simply hired a stenographer to follow him around and record his stories, while he talked and talked.
(12) The effort to complete it surely killed Orwell, who was forced to type the manuscript himself; his publisher, Alfred Secker, having failed to arrange a stenographer.