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textual criticisms

textual criticisms is the plural of textual criticism.

Meaning of textual criticism

Noun

textual criticism (countable and uncountable, plural textual criticisms)

  1. A field of scholarly enquiry dedicated to reconstructing the oldest form(s) of a text that is or are possible to retrieve and to explaining any attested variants.
    Synonyms:
    lower criticism

Questions about textual criticisms

What is textual criticisms the plural of?
Textual criticisms is the plural of textual criticism.

Words near textual criticisms in the dictionary

  1. textshops
  2. textspeak
  3. textual
  4. textual critic
  5. textual criticism
  6. textual criticisms
  7. textual harassment
  8. textualisable
  9. textualisation
  10. textualisations
  11. textualise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: textual criticisms (page history and authors); textual criticism (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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