hermeneut

Definitions

1. A practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.
2. An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].”

“He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.”

“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.”

“In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret⟳ it, or reduce⟳ it to a concept.”

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