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n. - A reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text; The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.

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  • Mabel became the first real decipherer of Emily's poems, almost by accident.
  • The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High Dutch commentator or a...
  • Because he finds himself radically inscrutable, Ashbery is, more thoroughly than any other poet of our era, a reader of his own poems, a decipherer, often (like his...
  • According to the law of probabilities, in a well-constructed cipher there would be two, three, or even four hundred chances against one, that in each mark the decipherer...
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