quotationist

Definition

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

Etymology

From quotation + -ist.

Example Sentences

• "Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]"
• "As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]"
• "[W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]"