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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
originalism is a noun meaning "the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it". It carries one recorded sense.
the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for originalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.