textual — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to text. Of or pertaining to textuality.

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   On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

2. Of or pertaining to text. Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.

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   I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.

3. Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.

Adjective

1. of or relating to or based on a text

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   textual analysis