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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).
Eduard Müller - philologist - died in 1875.
Eduard Müller - philologist - was born in 1804.
Franz Boll - philologist - died in 1924.
Franz Boll - philologist - was born in 1867.
Walter Miller - philologist - was born in 1864.
Walter Miller - philologist - died in 1949.
Leo Meyer - philologist - died in 1910.
Leo Meyer - philologist - was born in 1830.
Peter Giles - philologist - died in 1935.