textuist

English

Noun

textuist (plural textuists)

1. (obsolete) A textualist; a textman.
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

     the crabbed textuists of his time

   • 1872, John Berry M'Ferrin, History of Methodism in Tennessee: 1804 to 1818, page 44:

     And as a close and correct textuist generally, few perhaps ever excelled him .

2. One who analyzes the structure, meaning, and context of texts.
   • 2002, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print:

     Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound .

   • 2003, W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Text 15: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, page 347:

     In the interwaves of Greetham's Transgressions, the textuist-turned-autobiographer writes of his private experience of belatedness, otherness, anomie, absence.

   • 2016, Kathryn Sutherland, Marilyn Deegan, Text Editing, Print and the Digital World:

     Two particular developments have helped to shift the emphasis in textual criticism and, more cautiously, in critical editing in the last three decades from ideal stasis to historical metastasis, and to suggest at the same time a potential synergy or area of cooperation between the textually engaged literary critic and the critically engaged textuist.