philological
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The book — each section of which opens with an epigram from Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” — eventually bogs down in philological digression.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021
English slang is a field rich for tillage, as Max Décharné proves in “Vulgar Tongues,” a triumph of philological research and mordant social commentary.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2017
“When is this papyrological pantomime, this Keystone Coptic, this academic farce, this philological burlesque finally going to stop?”
From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2015
Beneath this philological fracas lay a truth evident to political speechwriters, eulogists, and news anchors: in times of tragedy, language matters.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2015
In other words, the archaeological method must find support in a philological method.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
