originalistn.

1835 Monthly Rev. Oct. 302 He exhibits..the qualities of an originalist..in his talent of investing abstruse and dry branches with intelligent, rational, and attractive features.

1926 C. Scott Philos. of Modernism (Waverley ed.) ii. 14 Now the whole distinction between the conventionalist and the originalist arises from a certain point of view, the latter holding that taste and refinement can never be associated with weakness and imitation.

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Feb. c1/5 What is the best way to tell a story? It probably depends on whether you ask a traditionalist storyteller, who learned his tales from his grandfather,..or the originalist, who makes up his own stories.

1980 P. Brest in Boston Univ. Law Rev. 60 205 Some central doctrines of American constitutional law cannot be derived even by moderate originalist interpretation.

1980 P. Brest in Boston Univ. Law Rev. 60 208 An originalist would hold that, because interpretation is designed to capture the original understanding, the texts must be understood in the contexts of the society that adopted it.

1996 ABA Jrnl. (Nexis) Oct. He is very different from other judicial officers because of his belief that judges should adhere strictly to formal originalist principles and avoid shaping law in response to the reality of social problems.

2003 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 11 Apr. He considers himself an ‘originalist’ or ‘textualist’. He said he uses an 18th-century dictionary to make sure he understands just what the 1789 document's words meant to the men who wrote it.