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quotationist

noun
/kwəʊˈteɪʃənɪst/

Etymology

From quotation + -ist.

  1. derived from quotō
  2. borrowed from quotātiō
  3. suffixed as quotationist — “quotation + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

    • Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]
    • As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]
    • [W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quotationist. 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