Example sentences for: philologist

How can you use “philologist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The people who establish and preserve innovations are unlikely to have the philologist's taste for etymological fidelity, but that hardly means they are uneducated or uninterested in language.

  • How different from his declaration at the outset of his career as a philologist: As regards everything else, so as regards language, the spirit of rigid conservatism operates as a principle of unalloyed evil and mischief.

  • For example, the Greek palindrome Aberamenthooulerthexanaxethreluoothnemareba , according to one philologist, is Egyptian for `Powerful One of the Waters, Thoth, God of Rain, O Sovereign: Rain of God, Thoth, of the Powerful Waters.


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