miscellanist
nounEtymology From miscellany + -ist.
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An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.
- Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. […] All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.1889, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, 5th series, vol. 66, p. 492
- Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars.1942, Yamato Ichihashi, "The Maker of Modern Japan by A. L. Sadler" (book review), Pacific Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 89
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- In Miscellaneous Reflections, however, Shaftesbury's approach underwent a significant change. Although the miscellanist persona's presence there is felt in a relatively small part of the work, his ironic celebration of the modern art of patchwork wit and his other manufactured ironies recall Swift's satiric ploys in A Tale of a Tub.1993, Richard B. Wolf, “Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony”, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, volume 33, number 2, page 582:
- Synonyms
- miscellanarian
- Related terms
- anthologist, dilettante, jack of all trades