stylometrician

plural stylometricians

1. Synonym of stylometrist.

   The dangers that beset the stylometrician may be illustrated from a comparison of C. Hitter's views, based on Stylometry, as expressed in 1888, and the same writer's views, based on general grounds, in 1910.

   1976, Reginald Hackforth, The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles, →ISBN, page 17

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   In one of George Schultz's 'Peanuts' comic strips Charlie Brown says to Lucy, 'Go ahead, tell me what I've been saying . . . tell me what you've heard', and Lucie replies: 'To, a, of, oh, but, and, the'. She need only have counted the frequencies of these words to have become a stylometrician.

   2003, MacDonald Pairman Jackson, Defining Shakespeare: Pericles as Test Case, →ISBN, page 104

   Before examining any of the disputed texts, the stylometrician should decide on the classes of word which should be relegated to the category of 'others', regardless of how frequently they appear – for example, proper nouns, some verbs and/or pronouns.

   2014, John Peter Gibbons, Language and the Law, →ISBN

   Synonyms: stylometrist