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textualist

noun

Etymology

From textual + -ist.

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

Definitions

  1. A practitioner or adherent of textualism.

    • In a 2015 appearance at Harvard Law School, Justice Kagan said that textualism had triumphed across the ideological spectrum. “We’re all textualists now,” she said then.

  2. Relating to textualism.

    • The textualist school on the other hand, by virtue of its very principles, cannot take any thesis seriously that concerns the nature of things.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for textualist. 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