Hermeneutical

Quick meaning: Hermeneutical is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to hermeneutics (the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts).

Meaning

Of or pertaining to hermeneutics (the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: exegetical, exegetic

Meditation on reader-response and meaning seems tedious by comparison, and not always free from jargon: do we need to speak of a reader's 'ideational activity'? (p. 173); why do we need to 'actualize ourselves as a second and extratextual audience'? (pp. 110f.). Do we have to be told that ‘Eliciting the hermeneutical activity of characters and readers alike, oneirography like pictorial descriptions invites the inferential walk’? (p. 81).

Synonyms for hermeneutical

Depending on context, synonyms include exegetical, exegetic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include historico-grammatical, hermeneutic, historical-grammatical, grammatico-historical, literal, philological.

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