Hermeneut

Quick meaning: Hermeneut is a noun meaning (philosophy, theology) A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.

Meaning

(philosophy, theology) A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.

Example Sentences

He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.

Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].

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.

Word Forms

• hermeneuts

Synonyms for hermeneut

Depending on context, synonyms include exegete, exegetist, hermeneutician, hermeneuticist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hermeneutician, hermeneuticist, hermeneuticism, hermeneutic, hermeneutics, heresiologist.

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