scribality

Noun

1. The practice of using scribes.
   • The scribal culture of the technical wisdom movement, the mnemotechnical oral scribality of the pre-mishnaic rabbis and the scribality of monks produced noticeably different texts. - 1996, Ian H. Henderson, chapter 2,...
   • As a rule, those in positions of power shared a vested interest in advancing the cause of scribality because control over the medium allowed them to govern the public discourse. - 2004, Jonathan Draper, quoting Werner...
   • He has stressed, first, the great differences between a manuscript and a printed text, and second, the multiple interactions between orality and scribality in the first century, including the variability of early...