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separative error

separative error noun: an error indicating that one manuscript has not been copied from another.

Noun

separative error (plural separative errors)

  1. An error indicating that one manuscript has not been copied from another.
    • Although the three extant manuscripts show different states of revision, no one descends from another; each has separative errors.1975, Robert Krueger (ed.), The Poems of Sir John Davies, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Commentary, p. 318
    • A separative error can reveal [to] us that a certain manuscript was not copied from another manuscript. […] For example, the scribe of manuscript A missed a whole line of a text when he was copying. Now the text in manuscript A makes no sense (because a whole line is missing), but it would be...2012, Marko Halonen, Stemmatology of a 16ᵗʰ Century Chronicle, Master’s Thesis, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, p. 16

Forms of separative error

pluralseparative errors

Questions about separative error

What does separative error mean?
Separative error means an error indicating that one manuscript has not been copied from another.
What part of speech is separative error?
Separative error is a noun.
What is the plural of separative error?
The plural of separative error is separative errors.

Words near separative error in the dictionary

  1. separatisms
  2. separatist
  3. separatistic
  4. separatists
  5. separative
  6. separative error
  7. separative errors
  8. separatively
  9. separativeness
  10. separatives
  11. separator

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