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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PHILOLOGY

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What does PHILOLOGY mean?

PHILOLOGY noun
  1. The humanistic study of historical linguistics.
  2. Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.
  3. (culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.

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