Definition of Literalist. Meaning of Literalist. Synonyms of Literalist

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Definition of Literalist

Literalist
Literalist Lit"er*al*ist, n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Meaning of Literalist from wikipedia

- Look up literal or literally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Literal may refer to: Interpretation of legal concepts: Strict constructionism The plain...
- Fundamentalists and evangelicals sometimes refer to themselves as literalists or biblical literalists. Sociologists also use the term in reference to conservative...
- Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting...
- school of jurisprudence (fiqh) found in pre-modern texts and noted for its literalist interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith. However, in 2021, Saudi Arabia...
- 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 do****entary, Tudor Par****, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim...
- poetic and prose philisophical writings which deviates from the more literalist style of the other books. Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and...
- essentials. Minimalism in visual art, sometimes called "minimal art", "literalist art" and "ABC Art", refers to a specific movement of artists that emerged...
- in a Baptist home; as he entered adolescence he began to question the literalist teachings preached at his father's church. At the age of 13, he denied...
- Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches, but interpret it in a literalist fashion without using the historical-critical method. Methodists and Anglicans...
- rationalists (aqliyyun; al-muʿtazila, kalamiyya) and traditionalist (naqliyyun, literalists, Ahl al-Hadith) groups and sects regarding the Quran and hadith or the...