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Definition of "variorum" []

  • An edition of the works of an author with notes by various scholars or editors. (noun)
  • An edition containing various versions of a text. (noun)
  • Of or relating to a variorum edition or text. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "variorum" in a sentence
  • "This, right here, with my variorum, is The End. Baby bird grown up, fled the nest, gone."
  • "It was considered imperative to correct Cotton's translation by a careful collation with the 'variorum' edition of the original, Paris, 1854,"
  • "[This is translated freely from that prefixed to the 'variorum' Paris edition, 1854, 4 vols. 8vo."
Words like "variorum"
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civili
cogit
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diddledy
dignitate
edition
houstn
intelligendum
judicum
june/july
longitudinem
references/suggested
sententiis
terroris
ventis