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/ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/ · noun
Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment..
Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is "rationalist," but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.
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Philosophe means Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment..
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Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is "rationalist," but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.
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