pretextual

pretext +‎ -ual.

pretextual (comparative more pretextual, superlative most pretextual)

1. Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense.

   Synonym: pretextuous

• pretextual arrest
• pretextual stop

pre- +‎ textual.

pretextual (not comparable)

1. Before the existence of a text.
   • 2016, Adele Berlin, “Literary Approaches to the Hebrew Bible”, in Stephen B. Chapman, Marvin A. Sweeney, editors, The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament‎, New York: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 165–166:

     They maintained that while historical critics sought to get behind the text to its pretextual and early textual origins (a “diachronic” approach), literary critics concentrated on the final product, the text as it now stands (a “synchronic” approach).