miscellanist

adj 1noun 1

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adj

1

Having the characteristics of a miscellany.

Punjab Notes and Queries […] was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.

noun

1

An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.

Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. […] All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.

Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars.

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