antiquarianist

noun 1adj 1

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noun

1

A proponent of antiquarianism.

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

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

adj

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.

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.

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