Textualist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Textualist is a noun meaning A practitioner or adherent of textualism.
Meaning
A practitioner or adherent of textualism.
More Meanings
- Relating to textualism.
Example Sentences
The textualist school on the other hand, by virtue of its very principles, cannot take any thesis seriously that concerns the nature of things.
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.
Word Forms
- textualists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include textualism, literalist, nontextualism, transactionalist, interpretationist, legalist.
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