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Definition of Textual criticism
1. Noun. Comparison of a particular text with related materials in order to establish authenticity.
Specialized synonyms: Higher Criticism, Lower Criticism, Masora, Masorah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Textual Criticism
Literary usage of Textual criticism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shaksperian Criticism: Textual and Literary, from Dryden to the End of the by Ernest Walder (1895)
"textual criticism of Shakspere from Dryden to the End of the c Eighteenth Century.
... Literary criticism is permanent; textual criticism is incidental. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The materials available for the textual criticism of the Bible may be classified
... The object of textual criticism is to ascertain the original text of a ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies (1902)
"CHRONICLE NEW TESTAMENT textual criticism. i. Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes ...
by Caspar René Gregory. V0i. i. This is the first part of what will be ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"... without giving the theological public some fruit of his diligent and successful
labors in the field of textual criticism. This, indeed, he had already ..."
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