exegeticist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of exegete A person who undertakes the exegesis of a work or body of work, particularly an apologist for a given religion.
Example Sentences
- "Many of these stories are ingenuous and charming, and to the exegeticist extremely troublesome: for the Bhāgavata-puråna refers to the Gopis being the wives of others at the time when they fell in love with Krishna."
- "The Buddhist truths which the exegeticist seeks to penetrate can be the object of a threefold wisdom, or prajna arising from listening (s'ruta-mayi), reflecting (cintdmayi) or meditation (hhdvandmayi)..."
- "The assimilation of sentences to pictures does not only carry advantages, it also raises difficulties, a close examination of which is instructive for our purposes. A delicate question immediately arises for the exegeticist as well as for the philosopher intent upon saving what is valid in this theory: how far exactly can one push the analogy between sentences and pictures, either in order to be faithful to Wittgenstein or to take account of facts?"