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Definition of Literalists
1. literalist [n] - See also: literalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalists
Literary usage of Literalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1854)
"They call themselves literalists, in opposition to those who entertain the pther
notion of the millennium, whom they denominate spiritualists or ..."
2. Christ and Economics: In the Light of the Sermon on the Mount by Charles William Stubbs (1894)
"And among the literalists you will be in good company. You will have at least as
your champion one great ethical teacher of modern times. ..."
3. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1887)
"Here meet the men we call literalists, and the rationalists. The literalists see
only the particular facts and isolated dogmas, and confine themselves as ..."