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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(philosophy, theology) A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text..
Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].
He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.
Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world.
In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret it, or reduce it to a concept.
Use hermeneut when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hermeneut means (philosophy, theology) A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text..
Common synonyms include exegete, exegetist, hermeneutician, hermeneuticist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].
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