Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characteristics of a literalist or of literalism.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
literalism .
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Examples
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Like most of the so-called main-line churches in the English-speaking world, its ministry is preponderantly not fundamentalist -- literalistic, that is -- in its approach to the Bible.
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It nicely illustrates that there are positions that are far more "literalistic" in their approach to the Bible, and thus far more ridiculous, but it is helpful to be able to ask those who claim they are interpreting the Bible literally why they don't hold those sorts of views.
Archive 2008-03-01 James F. McGrath 2008
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It nicely illustrates that there are positions that are far more "literalistic" in their approach to the Bible, and thus far more ridiculous, but it is helpful to be able to ask those who claim they are interpreting the Bible literally why they don't hold those sorts of views.
Fixed Earth: Setting the Record Straight James F. McGrath 2008
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Armed with this common conception of human value, Robertson's characteristically literalistic and simplistic reasoning concludes that the person with advanced dementia is "gone" and "a walking death."
Lynn Casteel Harper: Pat Robertson, Alzheimer's And Confronting Absence Lynn Casteel Harper 2011
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All your left wing literalistic fat will wear out!
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Geert Wilders, Nick Griffin and others would be issuing libels against Jews were it not for the actions of this idiotic, literalistic Wahabbi minority.
More anti-Seimitic attacks in London Not a sheep 2009
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It is Creationists and Creationists alone who have created these catagories in an effort to try to throw out not merely biology but planetology, geology, astronomy, chemistry, and even basic physics (indeed, any field of science that defies their literalistic reading of Genesis) under a straw-man they call “Evolutionism”.
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Armed with this common conception of human value, Robertson's characteristically literalistic and simplistic reasoning concludes that the person with advanced dementia is "gone" and "a walking death."
Lynn Casteel Harper: Pat Robertson, Alzheimer's And Confronting Absence Lynn Casteel Harper 2011
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In contrast, fundamentalism is literalistic, overconfident and reactionary.
Rev. Chuck Currie: The Bible Seminar: Rescuing The Text Rev. Chuck Currie 2011
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In contrast, fundamentalism is literalistic, overconfident and reactionary.
Rev. Chuck Currie: The Bible Seminar: Rescuing The Text Rev. Chuck Currie 2011
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