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literalism|ˈlɪtərəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism. Cf. F. littéralisme.]
1. The disposition to accept and interpret the terms of a statement in their literal sense.
1644Milton Divorce ii. xvii, If none of these considerations..can avail to the dispossessing him of his precious Literalism, let [etc.]. 1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. 324 Diodorus and Theodore of Mopsuestia,..the most eminent masters of literalism in the succeeding generation. 1865Lecky Ration. I. iii. 342 The doctrine was stated with the utmost literalism and precision. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 385 Extravagant literalism has been even more fatal to exegesis than extravagant allegorising.
2. Literality as a principle of translation; a peculiarity of expression due to this.
1883A. Roberts O.T. Revision xi. 224 The great characteristic of the translation of Aquila is its extreme literalism. Mod. Some of the translator's literalisms are very ungraceful.
3. Fine Arts. The disposition to represent objects (occas. to interpret representations) faithfully, without any idealization.
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 208 On considering this face of Charles..and translating it from the ideal into literalism, I doubt [etc.]. 188.Studio III. 147 (Cent.) He shunned the literalism of both form and color that jarred the ideal vision. |