philologer

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The young philologer tugged at these until he had mastered one or two words.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

A very learned English professor crushed an argument in a political discussion, by asking his adversary angrily: 'Are you aware, sir, that I am a philologer?'

From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George

"Had Carlyle turned his mind to it he would have been a great philologer."

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

When a Western philologer asserts that writing did not exist before a certain period, we assume that he has some approximate certitude as to its real invention.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett