"miscellanist" meaning in English

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          "text": "Punjab Notes and Queries […] was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.",
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          "text": "Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars."
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          "ref": "1993, Richard B. Wolf, “Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony”, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, volume 33, number 2, page 582",
          "text": "In Miscellaneous Reflections, however, Shaftesbury's approach underwent a significant change. Although the miscellanist persona's presence there is felt in a relatively small part of the work, his ironic celebration of the modern art of patchwork wit and his other manufactured ironies recall Swift's satiric ploys in A Tale of a Tub.",
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