hermeneut

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs, interpreter).

Noun

hermeneut (plural hermeneuts)

  1. (philosophy) A practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text.
    • 1857 May 25, Professor Lumsden, “Conversion of the Jews”, in Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, page 46:
      Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts [] .
    • 1989, George H. Jensen, “Introduction”, in Post-Jungian Criticism, page 3:
      He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.
    • 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance:
      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.
    • 2008, Michael Vannoy Adams, “The Archetypal School”, in Cambridge Companion to Jung, page 114:
      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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Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɦɛr.məˈnœy̯t/
  • Hyphenation: her‧me‧neut
  • Rhymes: -œy̯t

Noun

hermeneut m (plural hermeneuten)

  1. hermeneut, exegete
    Synonym: exegeet

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