Englishtextual criticismnounMeaningA 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.Related wordslower criticism(English)textualism(English)historical criticism(English)stemmatics(English)higher criticism(English)varia lectio(English)contextual criticism(English)form criticism(English)SourcesDictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
