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separative errors

separative errors is the plural of separative error.

Meaning of separative error

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

Questions about separative errors

What is separative errors the plural of?
Separative errors is the plural of separative error.

Words near separative errors in the dictionary

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

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