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

A good example of the critical genre appeared in New York, by de Kooning's longstanding friend, exegete and collector, Thomas Hess.

From Time Magazine Archive

The task of the exegete properly so called is quite different.

From Rashi by Szold, Adele