(especially, US) The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
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(philosophy, rare) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.
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(especially, Commonwealth, rare, and, somewhat, archaic) Historical or comparative linguistics.
his early philosophical studies converged with his original love of philology as he pursued the “prehistory” of Kantian critique in Descartes, Galileo, and Copernicus, back to Plato.
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