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exegete

[ ek-si-jeet ]

noun

  1. a person skilled in exegesis.


exegete

/ ˌɛksɪˈdÊ’iËtɪst; ˈɛksɪˌdÊ’iËt; -ˈdÊ’É›t- /

noun

  1. a person who practises exegesis
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of exegete1

1720–30; < Greek ±ð³æŧ²µÅ§³Ùḗs guide, director, interpreter, equivalent to ±ð³æŧ²µÅ§- ( exegesis ) + -³Ùŧ²õ agent suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of exegete1

C18: from Greek ±ð³æŧ²µÅ§³Ùŧ²õ, from ±ð³æŧ²µ±ð¾±²õ³Ù³ó²¹¾± to interpret; see exegesis
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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.â€

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The taste leaders are wealthy people, with exegetes in their wake.

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She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.

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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.

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Like Eliot, Graham has attracted her share of hecklers, as well as legions of accomplished exegetes.

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