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variorum
[ vair-ee-awr-uhm, -ohr- ]
adjective
- containing different versions of the text by various editors:
a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
- containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics:
a variorum text of Cicero.
noun
- a variorum edition or text.
variorum
/ ˌɛəɪˈɔːə /
adjective
- containing notes by various scholars or critics or various versions of the text
a variorum edition
noun
- an edition or text of this kind
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of variorum1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of variorum1
Example Sentences
In the case of a few of the more important poems, especially those dealing with the Revolution, I have given variorum readings.
“Who knows,” exclaimed the acute Gifford, “whether much of the ingenious toil to explain nonsense in the variorum edition of Shakespeare is not absolutely wasted upon mere errors of the press?”
It is alluded to by Shakespeare, and was contributed to the variorum edition by Blakeway.
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.
Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G. Wheeler.
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