lapsus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lapsus
1660–70; < Latin lāpsus; see lapse
Example Sentences
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Did you suffer a "lapsus typographicus," or has absolute zero retreated over 159� since I went to school ?
From Time Magazine Archive
Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."
From Time Magazine Archive
The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The French stage has a story of a figurant who ruined at once a new tragedy and his own prospects by an unhappy lapsus linguæ, the result of undue haste and nervous excitement.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
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