textualist

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English

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Etymology

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From textual +‎ -ist.

Noun

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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

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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.