textual criticism

English

Noun

textual criticism (countable and uncountable, plural textual criticisms)

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

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
Italian: critica testuale f

Latin: critica textualis f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekstkritikk m

Nynorsk: tekstkritikk m
Portuguese: crítica textual f
Spanish: crítica textual f
Swedish: textkritik c

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