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Definition of Textual

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or based on a text. "Textual analysis"

Definition of Textual

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.

Definition of Textual

1. Adjective. of, or relating to text ¹

2. Adjective. pertaining to text messages, by analogy with (term sexual): textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare (term sexting) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Textual

1. pertaining to a text [adj] - See also: text

Lexicographical Neighbors of Textual

Literary usage of Textual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2001)
"in the textual Notes unless it has been adopted by an editor in his Text; nor is conj. added in the textual Notes to the name of the proposer of the ..."

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Thomas Marc Parrott (1904)
"textual NOTES Macbeth was printed for the first time in the collection of Shakespeare's plays made by his friends, the actors Heming and Condell, ..."

3. The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake (1908)
"This criticism is usually known as textual criticism, for the obvious reason ... The object of all textual criticism is to recover so far as possible the ..."

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 ..."

5. The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake (1908)
"CHAPTER I THE OBJECT AND METHOD OP textual CRITICISM ONE of the most necessary parts of the investigations of historians is to criticise the documents on ..."

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