philologist

Example Sentences

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“I think deep down there is an intention to disappear the Cátedras program,” says a philologist who was terminated from the program.

From Science Magazine

The connoisseur of ancient artworks and respected classical philologist was also an ardent Nazi sympathiser and antisemite.

From The Guardian

The younger Marc, who thought of being either a minister or a philologist before taking up painting, adopted an approach to art that was intellectually driven and, until he met Macke, fairly lonely.

From New York Times

But despite the efforts of reactionaries—some British philologists advocated a return to Old English—and of spelling modernizers like Noah Webster, the lexicon remains our common property.

From The New Yorker

The philologists had a theory to explain why Sanskrit, the ancient forebear of Hindi, has closer cousins in Europe than in south India.

From Economist