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The study or practice of interpreting texts and other meaningful expressions.
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- textual hermeneutics
- biblical hermeneutics
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Her hermeneutics emphasized the reader’s historical position.
The seminar compared approaches to biblical hermeneutics.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Uncountable field noun; usually singular agreement. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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