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conjunctive errors

conjunctive errors is the plural of conjunctive error.

Meaning of conjunctive error

Noun

conjunctive error (plural conjunctive errors)

  1. An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.
    • […] a conjunctive error is one in which two (or more) witnesses agree, and it constitutes evidence of the parallel descent of those witnesses from a single common ancestor in which the error was originally committed.1996, James Grier, chapter 3, in The Critical Editing of Music, Cambridge University Press, page 77

Questions about conjunctive errors

What is conjunctive errors the plural of?
Conjunctive errors is the plural of conjunctive error.

Words near conjunctive errors in the dictionary

  1. conjunctivas
  2. conjunctive
  3. conjunctive adverb
  4. conjunctive adverbs
  5. conjunctive error
  6. conjunctive errors
  7. conjunctive mode
  8. conjunctive modes
  9. conjunctive mood
  10. conjunctive moods
  11. conjunctive normal form

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