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
Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G. Wheeler.
From Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887) by Ticknor and Company
When we survey the massive variorum edition of Shakespeare, we are struck by the circumstance that nothing similar has happened to any other national author.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
But, after all, a translator with a new variorum and a wealth of critical material at hand cannot go far wrong in point of mere translation.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown
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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