textualist
English
Etymology
textual + -ist
Noun
textualist (plural textualists)
- A practitioner or adherent of textualism.
- 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 0362-4331:
- 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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Adjective
textualist (comparative more textualist, superlative most textualist)
- Relating to textualism.
- 1992, Vincent Descombes, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 78:
- The textualist school on the other hand, by virtue of its very principles, cannot take any thesis seriously that concerns the nature of things.
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