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antiquarianist

antiquarianist noun: a proponent of antiquarianism.

Noun

antiquarianist (plural antiquarianists)

  1. A proponent of antiquarianism.
    • As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.1968, Religious and Theological Abstracts
    • […] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.1990, Jozef IJsewijn, Dirk Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies: Literary, linguistic, philological, and editorial questions, Leuven University Press, page 415

Adjective

antiquarianist (comparative more antiquarianist, superlative most antiquarianist)

  1. Pertaining to antiquarianism.
    • Within the framework of the ideology of antiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.1996, Digging Up Our Foremothers: Stories of Women in Africa, →ISBN, page 39
    • The cultural life around them would have been off-limits, which might explain why toward the end of the eighteenth century some Anglo-Irish men and women “awaken[ed] a new historical consciousness” (Trumpener 24) through antiquarianist scholarship that that (in true melancholist fashion) both...1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 76

Examples of antiquarianist in a sentence

  • During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
  • It no longer indicated a recognized field of academic study, and its use was limited to a restricted number of amateurs and antiquarianists.2015 July 16, Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, University of Chicago Press...
  • First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and even antiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.2014 July, Claudia Brosseder, The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru, University of Texas Press...
  • The behaviorist view has in turn spawned the antiquarianist, scientific/stylistic, and neoevolutionary approaches.2019 November 6, Michael J. Kolb, Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Forms of antiquarianist

Noun
pluralantiquarianists
Adjective
comparativemore antiquarianist
superlativemost antiquarianist

Origin of antiquarianist

From antiquarian + -ist.

Questions about antiquarianist

What does antiquarianist mean?
Antiquarianist means a proponent of antiquarianism.
How do you use antiquarianist in a sentence?
During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.
What part of speech is antiquarianist?
Antiquarianist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of antiquarianist?
The plural of antiquarianist is antiquarianists.

Words near antiquarianist in the dictionary

  1. antiquarianised
  2. antiquarianises
  3. antiquarianising
  4. antiquarianism
  5. antiquarianisms
  6. antiquarianist
  7. antiquarianists
  8. antiquarianize
  9. antiquarianized
  10. antiquarianizes
  11. antiquarianizing

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