lapsus

American  

[lap-suhs, lahp-soos] / ˈlæp səs, ˈlɑp sʊs /

noun

1. a slip or lapse.

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lapsus British  

/ ˈlæpsəs /

noun

1. formal a lapse or error

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Etymology

Origin of lapsus

1660–70; < Latin lāpsus; see lapse

Example Sentences

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lapsus

Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."

From Time Magazine Archive

I asked if I had made any serious lapsus, or said any thing very ridiculous or indelicate; if I had, I said I should never forgive myself.

From Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

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)

We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Scotchman,—"A lapsus linguae, that might have been made by the greatest orators, ancient or modern; by Cicero or Chatham, by Burke, or by 'the fluent Murray.'"

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria