Textualist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A practitioner or adherent of textualism.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to textualism.

    "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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fundamentalistorthodox

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"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."

Etymology

From textual + -ist.

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