textual criticism

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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

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