textual criticism
Noun

textual criticism

  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.
Related terms
  • text-critical
Translations
  • French: critique textuelle
  • German: Textkritik
  • Italian: critica testuale
  • Portuguese: crítica textual
  • Spanish: crítica textual



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