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variorum Definition

vario·rum (ver′ē ôrəm, var′-)

noun

  1. an edition or text, as of a literary work, containing notes by various editors, scholars, etc.
  2. an edition of a work containing variant versions of the text

Etymology: L, of various (scholars), gen. pl. of varius: see various

adjective

of such an edition or text

variorum Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • edition: Such a view of the possibilities or realities of the variorum edition has not however been universal.
  • page: Gondris reads the variorum page, she here appears to acknowledge, impressionistically.

Noun used with modifier

  • eighteenth-century: We may find determinate modes of interpretation in the eighteenth-century variorum, if we are not distracted by our modern predisposition to indeterminacy.

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