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
noun
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 eleventh edition of Boswell’s Johnson was brought out by John Wilson Croker in 1831; in this the original text is expanded by numerous letters and variorum anecdotes and is already knee-deep in annotation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
It is generally known as the first variorum edition.
From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by William George Clark
Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G. Wheeler.
From Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887) by Ticknor and Company
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
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