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"The philologist delighted in inventing witty neologisms" DECODEDThe is an article, philologist is the simple subject, delighted in this context is an intransitive verb, in inventing witty neologisms is the prepositional phrase with in as the preposition, inventing as a gerund and object of the preposition, and witty as the adjective modifier of neologisms, which is the object of the gerund.
The term philologaster is an obscure demeaning word for a less-than-honorable philologist (word scholar).
Walter Miller - philologist - was born in 1864.
Walter Miller - philologist - died in 1949.
Franz Boll - philologist - died in 1924.
Franz Boll - philologist - was born in 1867.
Otto Keller - philologist - was born in 1838.
Otto Keller - philologist - died in 1927.
Karl Becker - philologist - died in 1849.
Karl Becker - philologist - was born in 1775.
Otto Schrader - philologist - died in 1919.