philologist
noun
a person who specializes in philology, the study of literary texts and written records.
philologer
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a variation of
philologist.
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a word derived from
philology.
philologynounthe study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
Example Sentences
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A very learned English professor crushed an argument in a political discussion, by asking his adversary angrily: 'Are you aware, sir, that I am a philologer?'
From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
Ibn Duraid, whose many other names are given by Ibn Khallikan, is described by that author as 'the most accomplished scholar, the ablest philologer, and the first poet of the age.'
From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by F. F. Arbuthnot
He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
Hauptmann was not merely a philologer, which is a formidable thing in itself, but he belonged to the esoteric group that deals with languages which have no literature.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
