philologian
Example Sentences
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As a scholar and a philologian he had rare abilities, and a rarer industry.
From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards
Milton read, not as a professional philologian, but as a poet and scholar, and always in the light of his secret purpose.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
Alfred de Vigny was preparing his Eloa; Nodier was delighting everybody by his talents as a philologian, novelist, poet, and chemist.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
The anecdotes which have been recorded of him show that he was something of an archaeologist, and something of a philologian.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
The physician says “incurable”; the philologian says “fraud.”
From The Antichrist by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
