"literary word" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
A "literary word" is a word that is often found in literature, such as a poetic or archaic word. For example, "soliloquy" is a literary word often used in plays.
The term damsel for a young girl or maiden is now used only as a literary word.
2. Irregardless Warren Kramer outlined one of his pet peeves as the use of the word "irregardless", which he argues "is not an English literary word".
Once, in the course of a literary word game, he was challenged to rename a Shakespeare play as if it had been written by Robert Ludlum.
Researchers at the zoo had learned from previous failures, though, and with the aid of special hormone treatments, Emi gave birth to a healthy male calf named Andalas (an Indonesian literary word for Sumatra) in September 2001.
An alternative explanation may be that 'doom', a somewhat literary word, was not familiar in the vocabulary of some subjects, and perhaps more so given the high proportion of Hispanic subjects, many of whom may not have been raised in an English-speaking environment.
The preservation of an ecclesiastical priority of Matthew breaks down because of the literary word-for-word agreement in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
So it's very strange to find it on the same list as Susannah Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which is massive and very literary, or Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind, which is fantastically sophisticated, again in an essentially literary, word-based way?
Hundreds of elegant and literary words are taken from Pāli and Sanskrit, and new words are also coined from Sanskrit roots.
And there is little to be learned from looking down on people who mispronounce literary words that are rarely heard aloud.
Slang is a type of language that marks an informal register; literary words (like "thou" and "shalt") mark a formal register.
Cantonese would be scorned even more than it is by northerners today were it not for the fact that many words used are archaic, literary words from the Tang dynasty now extinct in common speech further north.
