variorum
containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics: a variorum text of Cicero.
a variorum edition or text.
Origin of variorum
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How to use variorum in a sentence
Boswell's Malone, the "third variorum" edition, is generally considered the best.
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson | Thomas Babington MacaulayIt occurs in several later miscellanies; and in the variorum translation of Anacreon published at Oxford in 1683.
Speculum Amantis | VariousUnwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
Ulysses | James JoyceThe affray was repeatedly mentioned in Parliament, where the changes rung upon it produced quite a variorum edition of horrors.
Bits of Blarney | R. Shelton MackenzieThis edition, now in progress, and Malone's variorum edition of 1821, are the most valuable in furnishing information.
Tragedy | Ashley H. Thorndike
British Dictionary definitions for variorum
/ (ˌvɛərɪˈɔːrəm) /
containing notes by various scholars or critics or various versions of the text: a variorum edition
an edition or text of this kind
Origin of variorum
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