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exegete

[ ek-si-jeet ]

noun

  1. a person skilled in exegesis.


exegete

/ 藢蓻ks瑟藞d蕭i藧t瑟st; 藞蓻ks瑟藢d蕭i藧t; -藞d蕭蓻t- /

noun

  1. a person who practises exegesis
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of exegete1

1720鈥30; < Greek 别虫脓驳脓迟岣梥 guide, director, interpreter, equivalent to 别虫脓驳脓- ( exegesis ) + -迟脓蝉 agent suffix
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of exegete1

C18: from Greek 别虫脓驳脓迟脓蝉, from 别虫脓驳别颈蝉迟丑补颈 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鈥檚 鈥淧ale Fire.鈥

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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鈥檚 patient exegete, scours several instances of the usage, settling on the idea that in this context 鈥渦p鈥 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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