Meaning of erudit | Babel Free

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An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.

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“When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read⟳ in a letter from another learned scholar of Bologna, ' We have⟳ here an entire Petronius [...].’”

“By contrast, however, we have⟳ a charming letter from Charles Beard in which he regrets that he never met Lord Acton, an érudit with an encyclopedic mind⟳ who published very little.”

“One of the striking features of the political battles of the 1750s had been the way in which parlementary critics – and most notably the Jansenist érudit Le Paige – had [...] provided more convincing accounts of national history than the crown was able to mount⟳.”

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