exegete

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.”

The taste leaders are wealthy people, with exegetes in their wake.

She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.

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.

Like Eliot, Graham has attracted her share of hecklers, as well as legions of accomplished exegetes.