The body of all written works. / The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.

Relating to literature. / Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. / Knowledgeable of literature or writing. / Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. / Bookish.

(rhetoric) An ironic figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite, particularly the negation of a negative quality to say something positive.

(intransitive, construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit. / (transitive) To contest in law. / (transitive, transferred sense) To dispute; to fight over.

(law) A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.

A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation. / A prolonged or tedious list.

An inactive village in Perry County, Missouri.