Noun

(en-plural noun)

Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature

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, year=1748 , year_published=2008 , publisher=Forgotten Books , author=Tobias George Smollett , title=The Adventures of Roderick Random citation , isbn=9781606208472 , page=301 , passage=First, to Counsellor Fitzclabber, who, he told me, was then employed in compiling a history of the kings of Minster, from Irish manuscripts; and then to his friend Mr. Gahagan, who was a profound philosopher and politician, and had projected many excellent schemes for the good of his country. But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours; for, between them both, there was but one shirt, and half a pair of breeches.}}

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, year=1883 , year_published=2008 , publisher=BiblioBazaar , author=Isabella L. Bird , title=The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither , section=Letter IV (Continued) citation , isbn=9780554384092 , page=83 , passage=He is not of the people, this lordly magistrate. He is one of the privileged literati . His literary degrees are high and numerous.}}

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, year=1968 , year_published=1973 , publisher=University of California Press , editor=Reinhard Bendix , author=Max Webber , title=State and Society: A Reader in Comparative Political Sociology , chapter=Bureaucracy and Political Leadership citation , isbn=9780520024908 , page=307 , passage=Just like every other human organization, the selection of political leaders through the parties has its weaknesses, but these have been exposed ad nauseam by German literati during the last decades.}}

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, year=2001 , year_published= , publisher=Bucknell University Press , editor=Ned C. Landsman , author=Roger L. Emerson , title=Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas,1600–1800 , chapter=The Scottish Literati and America, 1680–1800 , section= citation , isbn=9780838754887 , page=183 , passage=Eighteenth-century Scottish intellectuals, the literati', had substantial interests in America. Yet no one has ever noticed just how extensive the ties were that bound the ' literati to the new world, or how relatively novel those were for Scots in the eighteenth century, and how they were formed and shaped.}}