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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lower criticism
Antonyms: none provided
comparison of a particular text with related materials in order to establish authenticity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: criticism, literary criticism
Narrower terms: higher criticism, lower criticism, Masorah, Masora
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
tekskritiek
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Chinese Mandarin:
校勘學 /校勘学
(jiàokānxué)
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Danish:
tekstkritik
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Dutch:
tekstkritiek
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Esperanto:
tekstkritiko
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Finnish:
tekstikritiikki
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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French:
critique textuelle
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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German:
Textkritik
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Greek:
κριτική κειμένου
(kritikí keiménou)
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Indonesian:
kritik teks
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Italian:
critica testuale
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Latin:
critica textualis
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Norwegian Bokmål:
tekstkritikk
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
tekstkritikk
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Polish:
tekstologia
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Polish:
krytyka tekstu
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Portuguese:
crítica textual
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Spanish:
crítica textual
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms
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Swedish:
textkritik
— discipline for reconstructing old text forms