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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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There were new evangelical currents afloat, especially the tracts the Fundamentals that gave the literalist movement its name.
The availability of religious texts in the vernacular led to literalist and fundamentalist movements, and indirectly to religious wars.
If Ham were truly a biblical literalist he would be endorsing The Principle.
Oh, it's 'entertaining' in the largest, literalist, dreariest sense of the word.
Jonson, influenced as ever by the Horatian paradigms, adopts and adapts these literalist interpretations of the myth to his own dramatic ends.
We find the Committee's literalist reading of the right to receiving information and ideas is unconvincing.

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