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hermeneute

hermeneute is the alternative spelling of hermeneut.

Meaning of hermeneut

Noun

hermeneut (plural hermeneuts)

  1. A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.
    • Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].1857 May 25, Professor Lumsden, “Conversion of the Jews”, in Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, page 46
  2. (broadly) An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.
    • Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world.1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance

Forms of hermeneute

pluralhermeneutes

Questions about hermeneute

What is hermeneute the alternative spelling of?
Hermeneute is the alternative spelling of hermeneut.

Words near hermeneute in the dictionary

  1. hermatypic
  2. Hermean
  3. Hermenegild
  4. Hermenegildo
  5. hermeneut
  6. hermeneute
  7. hermeneutes
  8. hermeneutic
  9. hermeneutic circle
  10. hermeneutic circles
  11. hermeneutic cycle

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