textual variant

collocation in English

meaningsoftextualandvariant

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textual
adjective
uk
/ˈteks.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈteks.tʃu.əl/
relating to written or ...
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variant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ənt/us
/ˈver.i.ənt/
something that is slightly different from other ...
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(Definition oftextualandvariantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftextual variant

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It is also difficult to determine what constitutes a meretextualvariantand what belongs to another version.
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He suggested that distigmai indicate lines where anothertextualvariantwas known to the person who wrote the umlauts.
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It has only onetextualvariant.
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Over time, textual variants appeared among the manuscripts.
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The notes will usually include textual variants, both documented and conjectural, together with examples of parallel usages and (for non-fiction texts) historical information.
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The important find uncovered many textual variants not known from the canonical 7 (or 10 or 14) texts.
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There are approximately 300,000 textual variants among the manuscripts, most of them being the changes of word order and other comparative trivialities.
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The vast majority of these textual variants are the inconsequential misspelling of words, word order variations and the mistranscription of abbreviations.
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It also includes a list of the main textual variants for each book.
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All significant departures from the base text, as well as all significant textual variants, are indicated in footnotes. 3.
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Ehrman discusses a number of textual variants that resulted from intentional or accidental manuscript changes during the scriptorium era.
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The only textual variants are spellings for and for.
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It has only a few, unimportant textual variants.
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Footnotes record textual variants from a wide range of sources.
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Sometimes a three-part format is employed, with the main text at the top of the page, textual variants in the middle, and the editor's commentary at the bottom.
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