philology
/fɪˈlɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ noun C2- The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
Plural philologies
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But suppose one pass, as is permissible in philology, from the word itself to its softened synonym, then, instead of committing an ignoble assassination you make an ‘elimination;’ you merely and simply remove from your path the individual who is in your way, and that without shock or violence, without the display of the sufferings which, in the case of becoming a punishment, make a martyr of the victim, and a butcher, in every sense of the word, of him who inflicts them.
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