How to Use philology in a Sentence

philology

noun
  • Harvard is where Bill met his wife, who later got a PhD in classical philology.
    — Joel Stein, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • But 19-year-old philology major Maria (who only gave me her first name) was still worried about the Telegram blockage.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • For the advocates of liberal culture a century ago, the false god of literature departments was philology.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Studying philology or literature in the Soviet Union wasn’t appealing at all.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
  • How a Lutheran pastor’s son, trained in classical philology, ended up on that precipice of brilliance and madness is the essential drama of Nietzsche’s life.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Ramm channelled the chaos into a spectacular personal mythology, drawn from philology, astrophysics, and medieval history.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
  • Her discipline of philology, the study of the development of texts over time, requires comparing manuscripts to each other, building a stemma, or genealogy of texts, from a parent or original manuscript.
    — David M. Perry, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Where belles lettres pursued the cultivation of taste and aesthetic sensibility, philology aimed at the accumulation of knowledge.
    — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
  • While at Oxford, Hayes plans to study for graduate degrees in mathematical science as well as linguistics, philology and phonetics, according to the university.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Since the Reformations of the sixteenth century, religious conflicts had been settled not only by the sword, but with the potent weapon of philology, the linguistic science that produced accurate versions and translations of holy and ancient texts.
    — Jacob Soll, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The novelist, who before becoming a professional writer was a university professor of English philology, said she is encouraged by the enthusiastic crowds of young people who come to her presentations at book fairs across the world.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Philology prevailed in literature departments because philology was scientific.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Of course, my interest in psychoanalysis quickly grew to include many disparate fields, which have included philology, philosophy, biology, the history of culture, aesthetics, sociology, and in this case, pedagogy.
    — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Halyna graduated from Kharkiv National University with a degree in philology, Ukrainian language and literature.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Both brothers attended Saint Petersburg State University, where their father was a professor of philology, an academic discipline that encompasses the study of language and literature.
    — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Oxford’s humanities programs, which have long been scattered across the school, include English, history, linguistics, philology and phonetics, medieval and modern languages, music, philosophy, theology and religion.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 18 June 2019

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