antiquarianist

English

Etymology

From antiquarian +‎ -ist.

Noun

antiquarianist (plural antiquarianists)

1. A proponent of antiquarianism.
   • 1968, Religious and Theological Abstracts:

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

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

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

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

     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.

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

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

Adjective

antiquarianist (comparative more antiquarianist, superlative most antiquarianist)

1. Pertaining to antiquarianism.
   • 1996, Digging Up Our Foremothers: Stories of Women in Africa, →ISBN, page 39:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

Anagrams

• antiquitarians