textual criticism

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Noun

textual criticism (countable and uncountable, plural textual criticisms)

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

Related terms

text-critical

Translations

discipline for reconstructing old text forms

Afrikaans: tekskritiek
Danish: tekstkritik c
Dutch: tekstkritiek (nl) f
Esperanto: tekstkritiko
Finnish: tekstikritiikki
French: critique textuelle f
German: Textkritik (de) f
Greek: κριτική κειμένου f (kritikí keiménou)
Italian: critica testuale f
Latin: critica textualis f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekstkritikk m

Nynorsk: tekstkritikk m
Polish: tekstologia f, krytyka tekstu f
Portuguese: crítica textual f
Spanish: crítica textual f
Swedish: textkritik c

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