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hermeneuts

hermeneuts is the plural 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

Questions about hermeneuts

What is hermeneuts the plural of?
Hermeneuts is the plural of hermeneut.

Words near hermeneuts in the dictionary

  1. hermeneuticizes
  2. hermeneuticizing
  3. hermeneutics
  4. hermeneutist
  5. hermeneutists
  6. hermeneuts
  7. hermeo-
  8. hermeocentric
  9. Hermer
  10. Hermes
  11. Hermesian

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