classicist
Example Sentences
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Kathleen Coleman, renowned Harvard classicist, points to the words of the Roman poet Martial, who makes reference to Mars and Venus both in armor and women in the arena.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024
“The classicist who wants to be modern, meeting the modernist who wants to be classical.”
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
The honor of that fell to Edward Everett, a distinguished classicist then regarded as one of the greatest orators America had ever seen—now, all but forgotten.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
