hermeneute

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A form of hermeneut — A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounhermeneute (plural hermeneutes)

plural hermeneutes

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hermeneut

    As for the hermeneute, so also for the Biblical theologian of the New Testament, the main question is, What readest thou?

    1882, The Theology of the New Testament, page 4
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    To the hermeneute as to the poet, “fine issues” come not but to “spirits finely touched,” who have learned, it may be, almost unconsciously, to know what to look for, and where to find it.

    1860, The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, page 953

    If, on the one hand, that sciolistic hermeneute had known nothing whatever of Greek, he would hardly have been exposed to the temptation which overcame him.

    1888, Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly, page 272
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