textualist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A practitioner or adherent of textualism.
adj
Relating to textualism.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The textualist school on the other hand, by virtue of its very principles, cannot take any thesis seriously that concerns the nature of things."
Etymology
Etymology tree English textual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English textualist From textual + -ist.