Meaning of quotationist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

Examples

“Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]”

“As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]”

“[W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]”

“By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly.”

“This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of Milton's words that didn't catch on.”

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