exegete
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of exegete
1720–30; < Greek exēgētḗs guide, director, interpreter, equivalent to exēgē- ( see exegesis) + -tēs agent suffix
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But perhaps this explains the bequest: Finch knew her student to be incapable of pulling a maneuver like that of Charles Kinbote, the deranged exegete in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
McWhorter, playing the tone poet’s patient exegete, scours several instances of the usage, settling on the idea that in this context “up” conveys the intimacy of the setting it qualifies.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
As his best exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hippolytus is an exegete and accordingly still yielded with comparative impartiality to the impressions conveyed by the several passages.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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