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What is a literalist?

What is a literalist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law.
  2. A person who translates text literally.
  3. (art) One who works in the style of literalism.
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The literalist, observing that most people talk shop, takes it for granted that they like to talk shop.
In the spirit of a thoroughpaced literalist Shepard argues through fifty pages that the Sabbath begins in the evening.
There were new evangelical currents afloat, especially the tracts the Fundamentals that gave the literalist movement its name.
Oh, it's 'entertaining' in the largest, literalist, dreariest sense of the word.
We find the Committee's literalist reading of the right to receiving information and ideas is unconvincing.
The availability of religious texts in the vernacular led to literalist and fundamentalist movements, and indirectly to religious wars.

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