quotationist

English

Etymology

quotation +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwəʊˈteɪʃənɪst/

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Noun

quotationist (plural quotationists)

1. One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
   • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Disciple of Divorce:

     Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]

   • 1859, pub. Carlton & Porter, The Christian Lawyer:

     As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]

   • 1880, Jennie Willing, Diamond Dust:

     [W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]

   • 1902, Friedrich Max Müller, Georgina Adelaide Müller, The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller:

     By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly.

   • 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon:

     This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of Milton's words that didn't catch on.