textualist adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Relating to textualism.The textualist school on the other hand, by virtue of its very principles, cannot take any thesis seriously that concerns the nature of things. — 1992 noun1 •A practitioner or adherent of textualism.In a 2015 appearance at Harvard Law School, Justice Kagan said that textualism had triumphed across the ideological spectrum. “We’re all textualists now,” she said then. — 2022 formstextualists · more textualist · most textualist