"textual criticism" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-textual criticism.ogg Forms: textual criticisms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} textual criticism (countable and uncountable, plural textual criticisms)
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: lower criticism [dated] Related terms: text-critical Translations (discipline for reconstructing old text forms): tekskritiek (Afrikaans), 校勘學 /校勘学 (jiàokānxué) (Chinese Mandarin), tekstkritik [common-gender] (Danish), tekstkritiek [feminine] (Dutch), tekstkritiko (Esperanto), tekstikritiikki (Finnish), critique textuelle [feminine] (French), Textkritik [feminine] (German), κριτική κειμένου (kritikí keiménou) [feminine] (Greek), critica testuale [feminine] (Italian), critica textualis [feminine] (Latin), tekstkritikk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tekstkritikk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tekstologia [feminine] (Polish), krytyka tekstu [feminine] (Polish), crítica textual [feminine] (Portuguese), crítica textual [feminine] (Spanish), textkritik [common-gender] (Swedish)

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