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Hermeneut

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Noun
  1. 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[…]."

  2. 2
    An interpreter of culture, experience, etc. broadly

    "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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs, “interpreter”).

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