antiquarianist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proponent of antiquarianism.
adj
Example Sentences
- "As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students."
- "[…] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics."
- "Within a generation after Polo, Albornoz, and Cristóbal de Molina wrote their accounts, investigation into such things became a matter for antiquarianists: No longer performed, most such rites, especially those tied to public contexts and Inca state activities, disappeared into the past, recoverable only through the writings of those closer to the events."
- "During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves."
- "In a certain respect, this is a difficult question to answer, for it has now been demonstrated that the Yahwist was not only a historian but also an antiquarianist, which means that from a modern vantage point his motives as a historian were mixed."
- "After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the name honzōgaku almost disappeared. It no longer indicated a recognized field of academic study, and its use was limited to a restricted number of amateurs and antiquarianists."
Etymology
From antiquarian + -ist.