Originalist

Quick meaning: Originalist is a noun meaning One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.

Meaning

One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.

More Meanings

1. One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.

Example Sentences

So even if drafters' concrete intentions or meta-intentions are closer to the notion of state consent, the originalist is wrong to assume that this notion underpins human rights treaties.

His language is natural and happily wedded to his vivifying conceptions; and last but not least, he is quite unaffected and far above attempts at imitation, that is, he is a true originalist.

Opposed to the "originalist" is the type of man "in whom banality exists as a supposed virtue; from whom it would not only seem an impropriety to act, dress, and think differently from other people, but in whom it would be deemed a virtue not even to desire to do so."

It seems to us, however, according to the rate at which novels have lately been published, that unless some great reformer or originalist shall, establish a new school, or unless some new principle of concoction be employed, by which the appetite for fresh stimulants may be satisfied, novel readers must soon become insensible to the charms of fiction, […]

Word Forms

• originalists

Related Words

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