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literal adjective accurate, authentic, careful, close, correct, exact, factual, faithful, faultless, meticulous, precise, rigid, scrupulous, strict, textual, to the letter, true, true to fact, truthful, unchanged, uncorrupted, undeviating, unembroidered, unerring, unexaggerated, unmetaphorical, unvaried, unvarnished, verbatim, without exaggeration, word for word Associated concepts: literal interpretation See also: accurate, actual, authentic, exact, factual, faithful, honest, narrow, orthodox, parochial, precise, strict, true, verbatim How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The biblical literalists on the Dover board went out and found a supplementary biology textbook published by creationists in Fort Worth. Of course, every religion has its share of literalists. What it does is grease the skids for biblical literalists by glossing over the real differences Americans perceive about what the Bible is, what it says, and what, if anything, its words mean for our daily lives. |
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