Erudit

Quick meaning: Erudit is a noun meaning (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.

Meaning

(rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.

Example Sentences

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.

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 [...].’

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.

Word Forms

• erudits

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include erudite, savant, intellectual, clerk, scholar, learning-knight.

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