lower criticism

[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

NOUN

textual criticism

Synonyms

WEAK

close reading criticism literary criticism

Example Sentences

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This view might be accepted were the problem one of the "lower criticism".

From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)

All that lower criticism can do is to point out such a probability.

From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd