"scrivenery" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From scrivener + -ry.",
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          "ref": "1856, W[illiam] H[oward] Russell, The War; From the Death of Lord Raglan to the Evacuation of the Crimea, London: G. Routledge & Co., page 247",
          "text": "And yet we have notable penmen at head-quarters, who are at their vocation night and day, and who injure their temper and manners by incessant scrivenery, the results of which are buried in the pigeon-holes of Whitehall, never to be seen even in the lively pages of a blue-book.",
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          "ref": "1977, Flann O'Brien, The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection From 'Cruiskeen Lawn', London […]: Paladin Grafton Books, published 1989, page 148",
          "text": "There is a mystery involved. I cannot solve it, but it is simple enough to state. Why are all important or momentous things involving scrivenery always done on the back of an old envelope?",
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        "(uncountable) The practice or work of a scrivener."
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          "ref": "1906, Harold Bayley, The Shakespeare Symphony; an Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama, London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., page 242",
          "text": "At the bottom of folio 109 there is an entry which reads, The Law at Twickenham for mery tales. This is, apparently, a reference to a scrivenery and staff of skilled penmen maintained at Twickenham by Francis [Bacon] and his brother Anthony Bacon.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Anne Lyle, The Alchemist of Souls, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Angry Robot, page 93",
          "text": "Legal papers were not the most interesting of jobs, but at least he could do the work at home and keep an eye on his mother. And with Mai's new connections to draw on, he might even aspire to a post in one of the new scriveneries attached to the Inns of Court.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Michelle Butler Hallett, This Marlowe, Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane Editions, page 78",
          "text": "When I returned, I did need share lodgings with my brother and there set up a scrivenery just to pay the rent.",
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        "A place where scriveners work; a scriptorium."
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        "(countable, historical) A place where scriveners work; a scriptorium."
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          "text": "And yet we have notable penmen at head-quarters, who are at their vocation night and day, and who injure their temper and manners by incessant scrivenery, the results of which are buried in the pigeon-holes of Whitehall, never to be seen even in the lively pages of a blue-book.",
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          "text": "There is a mystery involved. I cannot solve it, but it is simple enough to state. Why are all important or momentous things involving scrivenery always done on the back of an old envelope?",
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