exegete
Example Sentences
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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.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
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.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
Bruce of Manchester University in England, a leading evangelical exegete.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the domain of philology he brought to the knowledge of Christian Europe the works of his great predecessors, and if he was not a very original grammarian, he was at least a clear-sighted exegete.
From Rashi by Szold, Adele
