varia lectio
noun
a variant reading.
variae lectiones
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pluralof varia lectio.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His master, the learned Father Ungarelli, had already commenced the work, and between 1830 and 1845, had amassed a considerable amount of materials for a book on the variae lectiones of the Vulgate.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
How else are we to account for the utter disappearance of the many monstra potius quam variae lectiones which the ancients nevertheless insist were prevalent in their times?
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
