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marginalia

[ mahr-juh-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

marginalia

/ ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə /

1825–35; < New Latin, noun use of neuter plural of Medieval Latin marginālis marginal

C19: New Latin, noun (neuter plural) from marginālis marginal

Several dozen of these surviving Hitler books contain marginalia.

For the great owners of the past, certainly, we regret that they were so sparing in marginalia.

Some of these marginalia were copied by subsequent scribes into the text, where, in our version, they still remain.

In his marginalia he compares the methods of expression of Shakespeare with those of Beethoven.

This was one of Friedrich Wilhelm's marginalia in response to such a thing; and the mutinous whimper died out again.

Poe said in one of his Marginalia that the man who dared to write the story of his heart would fire the paper upon which he wrote.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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