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textualism

noun

Etymology

From textual + -ism.

  1. derived from -el
  2. derived from textus
  3. derived from textuālis
  4. inherited from textewell
  5. suffixed as textualism — “textual + ism”

Definitions

  1. Strict adherence to a text, especially to the Bible.

  2. A formalist legal theory that interprets based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text.

    • And this is the upshot of textualism: textualists do not want judges to make the law. This, at least, is the official doctrine, and it sounds very democratic.

  3. Textual criticism, especially that of the Bible.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for textualism. 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