"belletristic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Aizawa Seishisai (Translated by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi), Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825, Harvard University Press, page 169",
          "text": "[…] if they do not owe their allegiance to shamanism or Buddhism, then most surely they commit themselves to some perverse form of Confucianism or belletristic foolishness."
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          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 229:",
          "text": "The guest list was a roll call of belletristic London.",
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        "Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres."
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          "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
          "word": "belletristisch"
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          "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
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          "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
          "word": "szépirodalmi"
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          "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
          "word": "beletrystyczny"
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          "ref": "1992, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Translated by Leonard Wolf), The Certificate, Farrar Straus Giroux, page 1",
          "text": "I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production."
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        "Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
      "word": "belletristisch"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
      "word": "schöngeistig"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
      "word": "szépirodalmi"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pertaining to belles-lettres",
      "word": "beletrystyczny"
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  "word": "belletristic"
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