quotationist

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English

Etymology

From quotation +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

Noun

quotationist (plural quotationists)

  1. One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
    • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Disciple of Divorce:
      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[.]
    • 1859, pub. Carlton & Porter, The Christian Lawyer:
      As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term
    • 1880, Jennie Willing, Diamond Dust:
      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[.]
    • 1902, Friedrich Max Müller, Georgina Adelaide Müller, The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller:
      By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly.
    • 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon:
      This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of Milton's words that didn't catch on.
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