English

Noun

hermeneut ‎(plural hermeneuts)

1. (philosophy) A practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text
   • 1857 May 25, Professor Lumsden, “Conversion of the Jews”, in Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, page 46:

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

   • 1989, George H. Jensen, “Introduction”, in Post-Jungian Criticism, page 3:

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

   • 2008, Michael Vannoy Adams, “The Archetypal School”, in Cambridge Companion to Jung, page 114:

     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.

Synonyms

• exegete
• hermeneuticist
• interpreter