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单词 literalist
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literalistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈlɪt(ə)rəlɪst/, /ˈlɪt(ə)rl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈlɪdərələst/, /ˈlɪtrələst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: literal adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < literal adj. + -ist suffix.
A. n.
1. A person who translates a passage or work literally. Also: one who insists on or adheres to literal interpretation of a text, statement, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [noun] > person exhibiting
literalist1632
realist1817
matter-of-factist1833
Verstandesmensch1879
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun] > disposition to accept > one showing
literalist1632
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > literal > person
literalist1632
1632 L. Anderton in tr. E. Campion Campian Englished Transl. to Rdr. 26 But now will anie illiterate Literalist (who dwelleth only in the bare letter of the Latin) finde fault herewith?
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 42 Let the extrem literalist sit down now & revolve whether this in all necessity be not the due result of our Saviours words.
1708 Rehearsal 15 Jan. 1/1 The Despisers of the Letter prove to be the most Superstitious Literalists and Observers of the Letter that ever were.
a1743 A. M. Ramsay Philos. Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1751) II. (new ed.) v. 315 The Predestinarian Figurists abandon the letter, and fall into a contrary extream from the Literalists, who reject the spiritual sense.
1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy III. vi. viii. 453 Where, on the system adopted by the literalists, shall we discover materials, out of which we may..fabricate the..hosts of the final daring apostasy?
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma v. 135 The veriest literalist will cry out: Everyone knows that this is not to be taken literally!
1995 Sci. Amer. July 10/1 Only biblical literalists are genuinely conflicted by Darwinism.
2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Apr. 14/2 Followers of the first trend might be described as literalists, meaning they have sought a return to the letter of Islam's founding texts.
2. An artist or writer who depicts or describes reality without idealization, distortion, or aesthetic interpretation; (in negative sense) an exact and unimaginative copyist.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > representation > [noun] > one who or that which makes representations > exact
literalizer1825
literalist1862
society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period
mannerist1695
romanticist1821
trecentist1821
classicist1827
romantic1827
expressionist1850
classicalist1851
Gothicist1861
literalist1862
realist1868
modernist1879
verist1884
classic1885
symbolist1888
decadent1890
veritist1894
neoclassicist1899
neo-romantic1899
renaissancer1899
social realist1909
avant-garde1910
futurist1911
pasticheur1912
Bloomsbury1917
postmodern1917
pre-Romantic1918
Dadaist1919
German expressionist1920
super-realist1925
surrealist1925
New Romantic1930
brutalist1934
socialist-realist1935
avant-gardist1940
New Negro1953
neo-modernist1958
bricoleur1965
popster1965
sound artist1966
performance artist1975
1862 Sat. Rev. 9 Aug. 163/2 ‘Can a man paint what he sees?’ On the answer to this query depends the solution of the problem involved in the disputes between the literalists in painting and their antagonists.
1866 Contemp. Rev. 2 548 The merely descriptive writer, the literalist, though he write in verse, is not a poet at all.
1917 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 643/1 Mr. Roth, who is a painstaking literalist rather than an imaginative artist, has never equalled his early plate, ‘Grim Florence’.
1999 J. R. Gruber Stackhouse 43/1 Until now, Stackhouse had been a literalist who saw strips of gutter as strips of gutter... With Great Rain Snake, his literalism gave way to the oblique tactics of allusion and evocation.
B. adj.
Advocating, practising, or characterized by literalism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective]
positive1594
literal1633
unprojecting1647
pounds, shillings, and pence?1650
matter of fact1712
unvisionary1794
unimaginative1814
literalist1838
literal-mindeda1849
visionless1856
realistic1862
terre-à-terre1888
pragmatical1896
illusionless1897
cookie cutter1922
down to earth1922
1838 Millennial Harbinger Sept. 415 Any literalist interpreter should assert that the late loud blast of the sturdy Layman's horn has laid your well-built arguments as flat as the walls of Jericho.
1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 5 July 18/1 Crome displays another influence from old art, that of the literalist foliage-painters.
1909 Educ. Rev. Nov. 367 There is a plain issue between the literalist and the spiritualist schools.
1984 R. Sullivan Stories by Canad. Women Introd. p. xiv Page brings the real and supra-real into conjunction, offering a stunning view of the literalist world's response to something it cannot understand intellectually.
2002 New Internationalist May 11/3 The literalist interpretation of the Qur'an becomes popular when Islam is in crisis and Muslims perceive themselves to be under siege.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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