Definition of "originalist" in English

noun

1. One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.

   • Opposed to the "originalist" is the type of man "in whom banality exists as a supposed virtue; from whom it would not only seem an impropriety to act, dress, and think differently from other people, but in whom it would be deemed a virtue not even to desire to do so."

2. One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.