exegete

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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

Chambers, says Buckley, "was an anti-theory man, a poet�not an exegete."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every one knows of Saadia, the first Hebrew grammarian, the first Hebrew lexicographer, the first Bible translator and exegete, the first Jewish philosopher of medi�val Jewry.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac