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textualist en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English textual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English textualist From textual + -ist.

Meanings

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

Forms

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more textualist	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most textualist	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

textualist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English textual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English textualist From textual + -ist.

Meanings

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. 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, →ISSN:

Forms

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textualists	Number=Plur		lexicographic