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textuist

textuist noun: a textualist; a textman.

Noun

textuist (plural textuists)

  1. (obsolete) A textualist; a textman.
    • the crabbed textuists of his time1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC
    • And as a close and correct textuist generally, few perhaps ever excelled him .1872, John Berry M'Ferrin, History of Methodism in Tennessee: 1804 to 1818, page 44
  2. One who analyzes the structure, meaning, and context of texts.
    • Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound .2002, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print
    • In the interwaves of Greetham's Transgressions, the textuist-turned-autobiographer writes of his private experience of belatedness, otherness, anomie, absence.2003, W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Text 15: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, page 347

Forms of textuist

pluraltextuists

Questions about textuist

What does textuist mean?
Textuist means a textualist; a textman.
What part of speech is textuist?
Textuist is a noun.
What is the plural of textuist?
The plural of textuist is textuists.

Words near textuist in the dictionary

  1. textually
  2. textuaries
  3. textuarist
  4. textuarists
  5. textuary
  6. textuist
  7. textuists
  8. textularid
  9. textularids
  10. textulariid
  11. textulariids

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