Definition of "sophists" [sophists]

• Plural form of sophist. (noun)

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• "The sophists were the intellectual men of an age of _humanism_,"
• "The chief result of it all was a race of remarkable public orators known as sophists or rhetoricians, wandering academic lecturers on the glories of the past or on commonplaces of philosophy, poetry, and history."
• "Even in the verses with which the chorus conclude the play it is insisted that the worst crime of the sophists is their insult to the gods."