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recension

[ ri-sen-shuhn ]

noun

  1. an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
  2. a version of a text resulting from such revision.


recension

/ ɪˈɛʃə /

noun

  1. a critical revision of a literary work
  2. a text revised in this way
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·sDz· noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of recension1

1630–40; < Latin ŧԲō- (stem of ŧԲō ) a reviewing, equivalent to ŧԲ ( ŧ ) ( re- re- + cēnsŧ to estimate, assess) + -ō- -ion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of recension1

C17: from Latin ŧԲō , from ŧԲŧ to survey, from re- + cēnsŧ to assess
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There is also an early Arabic recension, but its relation to the Hebrew and to the Arabic 2 Maccabees is still obscure.

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Some restraint thus was exercised, and this provision was retained in the recension of the code in 1415.

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A book, De miraculis, composed of extracts from Bede, was appended along with these three epistles to the later recensions of the Historia.

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The whole verse is omitted in the unrevised Septuagint, but in a later recension the number thirty is inserted.”

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Although, no doubt, of Hesiodic origin, in its present form it is composed of different recensions and numerous later additions and interpolations.

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