textualist
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- noun
- /ˈtɛkstʃuəlɪst/
- Formal
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textualista
- But this panel's textualist reading, interpretation technique straight out of Contracts textbooks, and its skepticism of Argentina's evidence on market custom should jolt the contract production process.
- textualists and originalists
Examples
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The gravamen of the commentaries is that a textualist approach has never effectively limited judges in the United States (Wood), no longer appears to limit even judges in the civil law tradition (Glendon), and clearly ought not to limit contemporary judges in their endeavors to advance the common good as they understand it (Tribe and Dworkin).
Academic text (1999) -
In fact, as Prakash argues, life-tenured Justices may be less likely to be textualists and originalists, not more so.
Academic text (2006) -
Rehnquist was not a textualist.
Blog text (1) -
There is fodder here both for the textualists and for other justices interested in equity.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, he concludes, it's actually the textualists and not the supporters of Roe who urge radical changes in constitutional law.
Academic text (2011) -
As a textualist, Justice Scalia totally rejects reliance on legislative history or legislative intent.
Academic text (1999) -
But I still think that most originalist textualists would not accept it as the best reading of the meaning of trial, so let's move on to applying the absurdity rule.
Blog text (21) -
At first glance, it appears he is siding with the textualists who claim that the only meaning to be derived from a text is the meaning provided by the words existing within the "four corners" of the document.
Academic text (1994) -
"Purposivists" in the context of statutory interpretation, for instance, generally have confidence in the competence and good character of judges to understand the purposes of legislation, whereas those who are "textualists" tend to be more skeptical that judges possess either virtue.
Academic text (2017) -
As a textualist, he believes that the meaning of the law should be derived solely from its literal wording.
Synonyms
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A person who takes words only in their exact meaning and ignores other meanings
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A person who follows laws and rules very strictly
How Literal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Textualist comes from text (from Latin textus, 'woven') and the ending -ist, meaning 'a person who does or believes something'. A textualist who works with laws or holy books reads the exact words and bases choices on what the text plainly says.