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Meaning of textual criticism

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

textual criticism

noun

Definitions

  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.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/textual%20criticism

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lower criticismtextualismhistorical criticismstemmaticshigher criticismvaria lectiocontextual criticismform criticism