stylometrist
stylometrist noun: a person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
Noun
stylometrist (plural stylometrists)
- A person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
- What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.1997, Stanley E. Porter, D.A. Carson, Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, →ISBN, page 224
- For every stylometrist whose research supports an attribution, there is another who can point out weaknesses in that research and cast doubt on the claim.2010, Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text, →ISBN, page Ian Lancashire
- Synonyms:
- stylometrician
Synonyms of stylometrist
Forms of stylometrist
| plural | stylometrists |
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Origin of stylometrist
From stylometry + -ist.
Questions about stylometrist
- What does stylometrist mean?
- Stylometrist means a person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
- What part of speech is stylometrist?
- Stylometrist is a noun.
- What is the plural of stylometrist?
- The plural of stylometrist is stylometrists.
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