exegete

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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

Chambers, says Buckley, "was an anti-theory man, a poet�not an exegete."

From Time Magazine Archive

We have seen what Sun's chief Marxian exegete thinks of him.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony