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Aug. 14, 2014 Word of the Day philology \fi-LOL-uh-jee\ noun 1. Obsolete. the love of learning and literature. 2. the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. Quotes Grimm helped establish nineteenth-century philology as a discipline that involved the study of texts leading to comparative study of language leading to comprehension of its evolution. -- Richard Mathews, Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination, 2002 Origin Philology joins philo-, a combining form from the Greek term meaning loving, and -logy, a suffix used to refer to writing, discourses and collections. It entered English in the late 1300s.
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