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originalism

noun

Etymology

From original + -ism.

  1. derived from orīgō — “beginning, source, origin”
  2. derived from orīginālis — “primitive, original”
  3. derived from original
  4. inherited from original
  5. suffixed as originalism — “original + -ism”

Definitions

  1. The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original…

    The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

    • One of the points that you’ve made in the past is that when originalism was first taking hold as a popular theory, one of the reasons for its popularity was that it was seen as offering a kind of restraint on justices.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for originalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA