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Definition of "literatim" [‖Lit•e•ra•tim]

  • Letter for letter: a word transcribed literatim. (adverb)

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 "literatim" in a sentence
  • "The only time that students in my class were reprimanded en masse for plagiarism, they had copied literatim large chunks of the introduction to the textbook used in class!"
  • "Consequently there is no just reason for translating the whole verbatim et literatim, as has been done by Torrens, Lane and"
  • "The attempt, or rather the intention, was highly creditable; the copy was carefully moulded upon the model and offered the best example of the verbatim et literatim style."
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