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- DictionaryTex·tu·al crit·i·cism/ˈteksCH(əw)əl ˈkridəˌsizəm/
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- 1. the process of attempting to ascertain the original wording of a text.
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Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range in dates from the earliest writing in cuneiform, impressed on clay, for example, to multiple unpublished versions of a 21st-century author's work. Wikipedia