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scrivener

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Noun — (old-fashioned) Someone whose job is to write out documents or legal papers for other people.

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Came from Middle English scryvener, an alteration of scryveyn, from Anglo-Norman scrivein ("professional penman, copyist"), from Old French escrivain, from Vulgar Latin *scriba, *scribanem, from Latin scriba, from scrībō ("to write").

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