| word | textual |
|---|---|
| definition | Having to do with or based on a text. |
| eg_sentence | A textual analysis of 1,700 lipstick names, including Hot Mama and Raisin Hell, suggested to the author that the women buying them lack a healthy sense of self-worth. |
| explanation | Before the invention of the printing press, books were produced by hand. When the text of a book is copied this way, textual errors can creep in, and a text that's been copied again and again can contain many such errors. By comparing different copies of a work, textual critics try to figure out where the copyists went wrong and restore the text to its original form so that modern readers can again enjoy the correct versions of ancient texts. When a class performs textual analysis of a poem, however, they are looking closely at its individual words and phrases in an effort to determine the poem's meanings |
| IPA | ˈtɛksˌʧuəl |
Tags: mwvb::unit:23, mwvb::unit:23:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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