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construe
(redirected from construal)

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construe v. to determine the meaning of the words of a written document, statute or legal decision, based upon rules of legal interpretation as well as normal meanings.



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This article discusses Native American urban adolescents' construal of social skills, and relationships between these skills and proactivity behaviors as identified in the Integrative Contextual Model of Career Development (Lapan, 2004).
I argue that in some of these interpretations the construal of the historical context leads to a contextualization that subverts the basic logic of these verses.
A further point of contention in Dulles's essay is his implicit construal of Nostra aetate as a defense of a mission to convert the Jews.
 
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