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originalist

noun

Etymology

From original + -ist.

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

Definitions

  1. One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.

    • His language is natural and happily wedded to his vivifying conceptions; and last but not least, he is quite unaffected and far above attempts at imitation, that is, he is a true originalist.

  2. One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and…

    One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.

    • So even if drafters' concrete intentions or meta-intentions are closer to the notion of state consent, the originalist is wrong to assume that this notion underpins human rights treaties.

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Derived

nonoriginalist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for originalist. 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