Noun:

சொல்லர்த்தமான,

literalness's Usage Examples:

It is characterized by extreme literalness, and clearly reflects the peculiar system of exegesis which was then in vogue among the Jewish rabbis.

It was apparently an attempt to replace the literary free dom of the Philoxenian by an extreme literalness.

The German rulers took Luther's advice with terrible literalness, and avenged themselves upon the peasants, whose lot was apparently worse afterwards than before.

Like the Wycliffite Versions it is merely a secondary rendering from the Latin Vulgate, and it suffered from many of the defects which characterized these versions, extreme literalness, often stilted, ambiguous renderings, at times unintelligible except by a reference to the Latin original, as in Luke xxii.

In the Apocrypha eschatology has a relatively small place; but there is enough to show that the hope of Israel was never forgotten, and that the imagery of the prophets was accepted with a literalness not contemplated by the prophets themselves.

Its value consists Syro" in the extreme literalness of the translation, which renders Hexaplar.

Synonyms:

concreteness,

Antonyms:

abstractness, abstract,