variorum
Americanadjective
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containing different versions of the text by various editors.
a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
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containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics.
a variorum text of Cicero.
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of variorum
1720–30; short for Latin ēditiō cum notīs variōrum edition with the notes of various persons
Example Sentences
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Certainly there have been closer examinations of Shakespeare's "motiveless malignity" and comic imagery; there are variorum editions that more thoroughly note corruptions of the text from the First Folio onward.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of these editions the most important was the 1727 variorum edition of Burman already referred to.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
Accedit commentarius ex variorum notis & observationibus, ex recensione Joh.
From The Library of William Congreve by Hodges, John Cunyus
He ‘gave the people of his best,’ and p. 145he usually wished that his best should remain without variorum readings, ‘the chips of the workshop,’ as he called them.
From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
I have read Burman's variorum edition with particular attention, and have often restored readings favoured by Heinsius to the text.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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