a. rare. [ad. late L. litterōsus, f. littera letter.] Studiedly or affectedly literary. Hence Literosity.
1888. Howells, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 479/2. Daudet is always literose. Ibid. (1891), Introd. to Mrs. Craig’s trans. Verga’s House by Medlar-tree, 6. He has as completely freed himself from literosity as the most unlettered among them.
