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reportorial

[rep-er-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, ree-pawr-, -pohr-, -per-]

Origin

adjective

of or pertaining to a reporter.

of, noting, or characteristic of a report: His lecture was more reportorial than analytical.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; report(er) + -orial, by analogy with pairs such as tutor, tutorial

Related forms

rep·or·to·ri·al·ly, adverb

un·rep·or·to·ri·al, adjective

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reportorial (ˌrɛpɔːˈtɔːrɪəl)

—*adj*
	chiefly (US) of or relating to a newspaper reporter

[C20: from reporter, influenced by editorial]

repor'torially

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

reportorial

irregular formation, first recorded 1858, from reporter.

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"There is a reportorial quality in Hemingway's work that is absent from Fitzgerald's fiction. Hemingway's technique—in his early work, at least—was to let the observed detail convey emotion with no authorial analysis. Fitzgerald was more concerned with evoking and analyzing the feeling of an experience than with recording detail. As he advised his daughter, "But when in a freak moment you will want to give the low-down, not the scandal, not the merely reported but the profound essence of what happened at a prom or after it, perhaps that honesty will come to you—and then you will understand how it is possible to make even a forlorn Laplander feel the importance of a trip to Cartier's!""

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