epistolary

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 26, 2020 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>epistolary</strong> &#149; \ih-PIST-uh-lair-ee\&nbsp; &#149; <em>adjective</em><br /> <p><strong>1 :</strong> of, relating to, or suitable to a letter</p> <p><strong>2 :</strong> contained in or carried on by letters</p> <p><strong>3 :</strong> written in the form of a series of letters</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"Jonathan Franzen, with whom he had struck up an <em>epistolary</em> friendship, offered to get together that April when he was in Boston." — <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_70BDAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA143&amp;lpg=PA143&amp;dq=%22offered+to+get+together+that+April+when+he+was+in+Boston%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=5k5_If9y5I&amp;sig=ACfU3U3oVQtAL0kfnYNu6tMmOsoMR49DHw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjy4dGi7Y3qAhXpl3IEHRy0ArUQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22offered%20to%20get%20together%20that%20April%20when%20he%20was%20in%20Boston%22&amp;f=false">D. T. Max, <em>Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace</em>, 2012</a></p> <p>"It is an <em>epistolary</em> novel, but spare, as opposed to an 18th-century novel like <em>Clarissa</em>, in which female characters write twice a day. Very few letters are exchanged between the friends; sometimes years pass in between." — <a href="https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/lifestyle/20200502/novels-memorable-characters-will-endure-with-readers#:~:text=%E2%80%9CLovegood%20Girls%E2%80%9D%20contains%20plenty%20of,characters%20write%20twice%20a%20day.">Don Noble, <em>The Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News</em>, 2 May 2020</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Epistolary</em> was formed from the noun <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epistle">epistle</a></em>, which refers to a composition written in the form of a letter to a particular person or group. In its original s