Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

    the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it

Forms

plural: originalisms
Singularoriginalism

uncountable

Word family

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