urtext
- noun
- /ˈʊərˌtɛkst/
- Specialized
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urtexto
- The movement's urtext is Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, by A. S. Neill, which sold millions of copies in the 1960s and 1970s.
Examples
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And even Federalist No. 10, the American urtext of the commercial republic, justifies the marketplace only as a means to the political end of a just and enlightened majority.
Academic text (2001) -
The musical score we used was the urtext, which showed the composer’s original intentions without any modifications.
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"This is why nationalistic folklore places such a premium on the reduction of textual "variants" to a single Urtext.
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His urtext for this kind of speech is Book 10 of Paradise Lost, and indeed many of his own finest poems are Miltonic dialogues between men and women.
Academic text (2001) -
Hogan is a storyteller who speaks the urtext of the Taiga myth through Omishto's and Ama's stories and experiences.
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The editor decided to release the urtext of the novel to highlight the author's original style and choices.
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For their analysis, the researchers referred to the urtext to understand the foundational concepts presented by the author.
Synonyms
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4.1
The first form of a book, film, or show before any change
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The original written words of a document that scholars study
How Original
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Urtext comes from the German parts Ur- meaning 'original' or 'first' and text meaning 'text'. So an urtext is the earliest version of a work, shown without later edits.