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palimpcestuous

palimpcestuous is the alternative form of palimpsestuous.

Meaning of palimpsestuous

Adjective

palimpsestuous (comparative more palimpsestuous, superlative most palimpsestuous)

  1. Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.
    • But this missive from Boston may be taken as a palimpcestuous précis of Finnegans Wake itself1965, Anthony Burgess, “ALP and her Letter”, in Re Joyce, page 210

Forms of palimpcestuous

comparativemore palimpcestuous
superlativemost palimpcestuous

Questions about palimpcestuous

What is palimpcestuous the alternative form of?
Palimpcestuous is the alternative form of palimpsestuous.

Words near palimpcestuous in the dictionary

  1. palimbacchii
  2. palimbacchius
  3. Palimbang
  4. Palime
  5. palimony
  6. palimpcestuous
  7. palimpsest
  8. palimpsested
  9. palimpsestic
  10. palimpsestically
  11. palimpsesting

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