textualist

English

Etymology

textual +‎ -ist

Noun

textualist (plural textualists)

1. A practitioner or adherent of textualism.
   • 2022 June 30, Adam Liptak, quoting Elena Kagan, “Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Ability to Restrict Power Plant Emissions”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Adjective

textualist (comparative more textualist, superlative most textualist)

1. Relating to textualism.
   • 1992, Vincent Descombes, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 78:

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