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historical-grammatical

historical-grammatical is the alternative form of historico-grammatical.

Meaning of historico-grammatical

Adjective

historico-grammatical (not comparable)

  1. (hermeneutics, textual analysis) Pertaining to, using or based on the textual analysis technique of using context and literary form to establish the meaning of the text at the time it was written.
    • In biblical exegesis, the historico-grammatical approach tries to avoid extremes: that of dismissing the use of figurative language in the text on the one hand, versus dismissing the possibility of the miraculous and the supernatural on the other; that of ignoring what the original authors...

Forms of historical-grammatical

alternative formhistorico-grammatical
alternative formgrammatico-historical

Questions about historical-grammatical

What is historical-grammatical the alternative form of?
Historical-grammatical is the alternative form of historico-grammatical.

Words near historical-grammatical in the dictionary

  1. historical society
  2. historical sociology
  3. historical subject
  4. historical subjects
  5. historical-critical
  6. historical-grammatical
  7. historicalist
  8. historicalists
  9. historicalities
  10. historicality
  11. historicalization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: historical-grammatical (page history and authors); historico-grammatical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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