What's the difference between copist and copyist?

Copist


Definition:

  • (n.) A copier.

Example Sentences:

Copyist


Definition:

  • (n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
  • (2) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
  • (3) At moments, she sounds like an advertising copyist for Mills & Boon.
  • (4) Apple can portray it as a looter of intellectual property, a copyist, an unimaginative follower.
  • (5) Sniffin' Glue wasn't the first fanzine – Punk (which famously coined the genre's moniker) started self-publishing in New York six months earlier – but its primitive Xerox'n'Sellotape aesthetic was the perfect medium to capture British punk's early energy, and to inspire a generation of copyists.
  • (6) They became skilled calligraphers and, hailing from far and wide, they would work as copyists to pay for their digs.
  • (7) Sherman had started out painting, and is still a good copyist.
  • (8) This isn’t globalisation: this is Big Finance and its copyists, trampling over workers, families, communities.
  • (9) On that longest and most crowded of streets there were dozens of dealers, auction houses, restorers and copyists, art suppliers, exhibition halls and galleries.

Words possibly related to "copist"

Words possibly related to "copyist"