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单词 quotationist
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quotationistn.

Brit. /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn̩ɪst/, /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌkwoʊˈteɪʃənəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quotation n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < quotation n. + -ist suffix.
A person who habitually uses quotations; (Literary Criticism) a writer whose work makes reference or allusion to the past.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > fondness for quotations > one who quotes
quotationist1644
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 Let the statutes of God be..consider'd..not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationists.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 443 The quotationist..never saw even the Parthian back of the lucky fugitive.
1923 L. Untermeyer Amer. Poetry Since 1900 iv. 361 Almost choked by the pretentious quotationist, there is a mute anguish in the section entitled ‘Death by Water’.
1985 G. H. Hartman Easy Pieces iii. 123 I now turn the clock forward once more to..a deliberate collagist and quotationist before ‘intertextuality’ had become a doctrine or Derrida had invaded these shores.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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