What's the difference between literalist and originalist?
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.
Originalist
Definition:
(n.) One who is original.
Example Sentences:
(1) Free markets, a hawkish foreign policy, and constant attacks on Democrats and the left are important components of this, but nothing is more important to Levin than his ultra-originalist version of the constitution, which above all stresses states’ rights.
(2) In a way it's a version of the phone to please the telephone originalist, the strict constructionist.