textuist

plural textuists

1. obsoleteA textualist; a textman.

   the crabbed textuists of his time

   1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC

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   And as a close and correct textuist generally, few perhaps ever excelled him .

   1872, John Berry M'Ferrin, History of Methodism in Tennessee: 1804 to 1818, page 44

2. One who analyzes the structure, meaning, and context of texts.

   Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound .

   2002, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print

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   In the interwaves of Greetham's Transgressions, the textuist-turned-autobiographer writes of his private experience of belatedness, otherness, anomie, absence.

   2003, W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Text 15: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, page 347

   Two particular developments have helped to shift the emphasis in textual criticism and, more cautiously, in critical editing in the last three decades from ideal stasis to historical metastasis, and to suggest at the same time a potential synergy or area of cooperation between the textually engaged literary critic and the critically engaged textuist.

   2016, Kathryn Sutherland, Marilyn Deegan, Text Editing, Print and the Digital World