antiquarianist

plural antiquarianists

1. A proponent of antiquarianism.

   […] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.

   1990, Jozef IJsewijn, Dirk Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies: Literary, linguistic, philological, and editorial questions, Leuven University Press, page 415

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   As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.

   1968, Religious and Theological Abstracts

   Within a generation after Polo, Albornoz, and Cristóbal de Molina wrote their accounts, investigation into such things became a matter for antiquarianists: No longer performed, most such rites, especially those tied to public contexts and Inca state activities, disappeared into the past, recoverable only through the writings of those closer to the events.

   1998, Thomas A. Abercrombie, Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 188

   During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.

   1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 97

   In a certain respect, this is a difficult question to answer, for it has now been demonstrated that the Yahwist was not only a historian but also an antiquarianist, which means that from a modern vantage point his motives as a historian were mixed.

   2000, Margot Gayle, Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 279–280

   After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the name honzōgaku almost disappeared. It no longer indicated a recognized field of academic study, and its use was limited to a restricted number of amateurs and antiquarianists.

   2015 July 16, Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 274

comparative more antiquarianist · superlative most antiquarianist

1. Pertaining to antiquarianism.

   Within the framework of the ideology of antiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.

   1996, Digging Up Our Foremothers: Stories of Women in Africa, →ISBN, page 39

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   The cultural life around them would have been off-limits, which might explain why toward the end of the eighteenth century some Anglo-Irish men and women “awaken[ed] a new historical consciousness” (Trumpener 24) through antiquarianist scholarship that that (in true melancholist fashion) both preserved and mourned the folkloric traditions forbidden to them as children.

   1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 76

   First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and even antiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.

   2014 July, Claudia Brosseder, The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 192

   The behaviorist view has in turn spawned the antiquarianist, scientific/stylistic, and neoevolutionary approaches. The antiquarianist stresses the formal properties of a monument—the architecture, the layout, the building material, the imagery and so forth—defining the encoded behavioral meanings intended by the architect.

   2019 November 6, Michael J. Kolb, Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN