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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

conjunctive error en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.
    • […] a conjunctive error is one in which two (or more) witnesses agree, and it constitutes evidence of the parallel descent of those witnesses from a single common ancestor in which the error was originally committed. 1996, James Grier, chapter 3, in The Critical Editing of Music, Cambridge University Press, page 77:

Forms

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conjunctive errors Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

separative error