What does erudit mean?
Erudit means (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts..
When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar of Bologna, ' We have here an entire Petronius [...].’
By contrast, however, we have a charming letter from Charles Beard in which he regrets that he never met Lord Acton, an érudit with an encyclopedic mind who published very little.
One of the striking features of the political battles of the 1750s had been the way in which parlementary critics – and most notably the Jansenist érudit Le Paige – had [...] provided more convincing accounts of national history than the crown was able to mount.
Use erudit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Erudit means (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar of Bologna, ' We have here an entire Petronius [...].’
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