What's the difference between liberalist and literalist?

Liberalist


Definition:

  • (n.) A liberal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (2) But what gets me is the neo-liberalist structuring of the EU and that there is no challenge to it.

Literalist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mostly they are extremist believers of one sort or another, the more literalist of the peoples of the book: Jews, Christians, Muslims.
  • (2) In claiming that creation 'science' is as valid as evolution the creationists misquote scientists and seek to spread their own 'scientific' myths concerning a young age for the earth, an act of creation based on a particular literalist interpretation of the Christian Bible and a single worldwide flood.
  • (3) If you’re self-trained as a literalist, like myself, you might wonder why a reimagining of the life of the working-class playwright Andrea Dunbar might require lip-synching actors.

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