ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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.

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Related dictionary entries include textualism, literalist, nontextualism, transactionalist, interpretationist, legalist.

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