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Meanings of philology in English
Study of language in written historical sources.
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Usage of philology in English
1
In the conversation, which had turned accidentally upon philology and the MSS.
2
There were branches of classical philology in which the Renaissance was backward.
3
In the understanding of history, psychology is quite as necessary as philology.
4
Leaves Bonn for Leipzig, following his former tutor of philology, Friedrich Ritschl.
5
But when philology turns historian it is apt to play strange tricks.
6
Phylogenetic comparative philology here yields a strong support to phylogenetic comparative zoology.
7
He was, he explained, a student of philology preparing for his doctorate.
8
He is undoubtedly writing the chapter on the philology of the Aryan Family.
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Early distinction rewarded him with a professorship in philology at 24.
10
His talent was for language and philology; his perfections were faith and perseverance.
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The only matter in which German philology surpassed Italian was science.
12
Ramona was a philology student and very intent on her work.
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For we do not entirely banish mirth from our daily studies in philology.
14
Of his services to philology, I need not speak in detail.
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Besides this he worked at philology and the ordinary school curriculum.
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At this point we might wish to introduce the arguments deducible from philology.
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Philology through the time
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