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.
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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
The editors contribute a memoir, critical introduction, and notes; the variorum texts are given and new matter has been added.
From Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram
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 Theodore Watts-Dunton
A new and verbatim text from the manuscript, engraved, and letter-press originals, with variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces.
From Books and Characters French and English by Giles Lytton Strachey
But no single editor's work can be a perfect substitute for a variorum edition like that of Todd, giving the comments and suggestions of many different minds.
From Milton by John Cann Bailey
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