quotationist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kwəʊˈteɪʃənɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]quotationist (plural quotationists)
- One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Disciple of Divorce:
- Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]
- 1859, pub. Carlton & Porter, The Christian Lawyer:
- As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]
- 1880, Jennie Willing, Diamond Dust:
- [W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]
- 1902, Friedrich Max Müller, Georgina Adelaide Müller, The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller:
- By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly.
- 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon:
- This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of Milton's words that didn't catch on.