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Definition
someone recognized as especially knowledgeable in a particular field
- His friends who were specialists and savants, occasionally—unmistakably from politeness—alluded to it.Part Eight (1% in)
- On the way he thought no more of money, but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book.Part Seven (6% in)
There are no more uses of "savant" in Anna Karenina.
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