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philology
noun
- Obsolete the love of learning and literature; study; scholarship
- linguistics
- the study of written records, esp. literary texts, in order to determine their authenticity, meaning, etc.
Related Forms:
- philological adjective or philologic
- philologically adverb
- philologist noun
See philology in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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