philologer
Example Sentences
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Hauptmann was not merely a philologer, which is a formidable thing in itself, but he belonged to the esoteric group that deals with languages which have no literature.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
But Borrow, though an extraordinary linguist, was a somewhat unchastened philologer, and the results of his life-long philological studies appear to much better advantage from the literary than from the scientific point of view.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
Al-Yazidi, a story of whom I quoted above, was a teacher of Koranic readings, a grammarian and a philologer, who taught in Baghdad in the ninth century.
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A curious book on it has lately been published in Trinidad by Mr. Thomas, a coloured gentleman, who seems to be at once no mean philologer and no mean humorist.
From At Last by Charles Kingsley
He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
