How do you pronounce quotationist?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌkwoʊˈteɪʃənəst/.

quotationist

/ˌkwoʊˈteɪʃənəst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Let the ſtatutes of God be turn'd over, be ſcann'd a nevv, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrovv intellectuals of quotationiſts and common placers, but (as vvas the ancient right of Counſels) by men of vvhat liberall profeſſion ſoever, of eminent ſpirit and breeding, joyn'd vvith a diffuſe and various knovvledge of divine and human things; able to ballance and define good and civill, right and vvrong throughout every ſtate of life; […]"
"As a quotationist he [Robert Southey] exceeds Old Burton [Robert Burton?]. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term which I make him my best bow for inventing."
"Having dead men's mental coin rattling from the pen-point or tongue tip may make a clever quotationist, but never a rich, ripe thinker."
"By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly."
"The Waste Land [by Thomas Stearns Eliot] is not only, however, a hash of Webster, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, the Bible, vaudeville ballads, Swinburne, Eliot's own poems, the Upanishads, etc. There are, in its splintered depths, moments of imaginative vigor. […] Almost choked by the pretentious quotationist, there is a mute anguish in the section entitled "Death by Water.""
"This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of [John] Milton's words that didn't catch on."

Etymology tree English quotation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English quotationist From quotation + -ist (suffix denoting a person who engages in a particular type of activity).

quotationists (plural)

quotation quote quoter