Textualist
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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More examples"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.