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world-read en · ADJ
Meanings
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(dated, not-comparable) Of a journal or publication, widely or internationally renowned.
Then there was the case of the lady who having shuddered at the book in an influential article bearing intermediate headlines of horror, and printed in a world-read journal, wrote to me shortly afterwards that it was her desire to make my acquaintance.
1895, Thomas Hardy, The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, Volume 3, page x:This is such a vital question to your professional readers , that I am sure you will find this letter of general interest to the subscribers of your world-read publication.
1918, Municipal Engineering Publications, Municipal Engineering and the Sanitary Record, Volume 61, page 14:In a vein of highly original humor this world-read book records a pleasure excursion on the Quaker City to Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, in the sixties.
1898, Charles Dudley Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (editors), Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, page 271: