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antiquarianist

noun

Etymology

From antiquarian + -ist.

  1. learned borrowing from antīquārius
  2. formed as antiquarian — “antiquary + -an”
  3. suffixed as antiquarianist — “antiquarian + ist”

Definitions

  1. A proponent of antiquarianism.

    • As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.
    • […] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.

  2. Pertaining to antiquarianism.

    • Within the framework of the ideology of antiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.
    • First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and even antiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antiquarianist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA