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literalistic

a. Of or pertaining to literalism.

Usage examples of "literalistic".

If all Breb's tribe were as literalistic as he was, then their knowing that a mule could carry more than a man might incapacitate him.

Rudwick puts it, “No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis.