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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wên-li n.  The higher literary idiom of Chinese, that of the canonical books and of all composition pretending to literary standing.  It employs a classical or academic diction, and a more condensed and sententious style than Mandarin, and differs also in the doubling and arrangement of words.