Philologist

He may have used the word philologist somewhat loosely on occasion. ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)

In a move to grab your attention by confusing you, I'm actually not writing about the word philologist today, but rather an intriguing-looking word that may make you stop and grab your dictionary by the short bindings upon encountering it, "it" being today's "Take My Word for It," word: ❋ By Diane Dean-Epps Special To Sunday Express (2010)

During my brilliant interview, my philologist was a bit reticent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

FECHER: A philologist is a person who studies the origins and meanings of words. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Experience, therefore, is certainly an essential prerequisite for a philologist -- that is, the philologist must first of all be a man; for then only can he be productive as a philologist. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Lipsius (1547-1606) is known as a philologist and for his treatises on the military art of the Romans, on the Latin classics, and on the philosophy of the Stoics. ❋ Anne C. Lynch Botta (1853)

Thus, the second time a book by today's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature marked my life, because it made me realize how frustrating it was to be a philologist in Cuba. ❋ Yoani Sanchez (2010)

Horne Tooke, John (1736 – 1812): a philologist and radical whose etymological work The Diversions of ❋ Unknown (2009)

A philologist can attempt to place a document into perspective relative to its writer, and also look at how it may be connected to other works by looking carefully at two areas: construction and semantics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also linguistic comparisons with contemporary NHG are more or less impossible, as a few philologist-friends remind me from time to time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was interviewing a philologist on Thursday (never mind what I was doing interviewing a philologist) and I thought he bore it with dignity and patience even though there was something about the way he bore himself that also made me think afterward that perhaps he was condescending to the situation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The creator of Philip Marlowe, LA's greatest gumshoe, wanted to be a comparative philologist! ❋ Unknown (2011)

They were both college professors, and though Jorgen, a classical philologist, worked like crazy to find a job at a U.S. university, he wasn't able to. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Indeed, I think law and philology are closely related disciplines and law could learn a lot more from philology (and American legalese is interesting to me as an amateur philologist for a rather unusual reason*). ❋ Unknown (2010)

COPENHAGEN -- Tonight, Yoani Sánchez -- the world-renowned Cuban blogger and philologist -- will be honored here with the inaugural Freedom Award, in the amount of $50,000, by the independent Danish think tank, CEPOS. ❋ Thor Halvorssen (2011)