textual criticism

English

Pronunciation

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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.
    Synonym: (dated) lower criticism
  • text-critical

Translations

discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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