Literalism

Definitions

1. Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.
   uncountable, usually
2. The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Elsewhere, the liturgiologists were said to have⟳ "disembowelled the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible" and produced in its place⟳ "the bland literalisms of Series 3 and the ASB[.]"”

“Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort⟳ of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make⟳ these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.””

“The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.”

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