variant reading
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvariantandreading
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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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reading
noun
uk/ˈriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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(Definition ofvariantandreadingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Following this interpretation, it may be dangerous to reject thevariantreading66° as a mere corruption.
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Three of them contain complete texts with variant readings.
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Not all of the changes can be attributed to variant readings.
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Scholars have suggested that missing words (a "lacuna"), or avariantreading/rearrangement of the received text, would smooth the presently abrupt transition between lines 10 and 11.
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In avariantreadingthe rabbi's first statement was that the soul entered the body only at birth.
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Subsequent early printings corrected some of the mistakes and introduced others, so variant readings began to accumulate.
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Nonetheless, this group of variant readings arguably constitutes a representative consistency sufficient to warrant the conclusion that a predecessor of this manuscript was used.
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It might be maintained that some of the variant readings in the canticumrevision also emerged in response to problems of legibility encountered in a materially defective exemplar.
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Sometimes he focuses on questions of textual criticism and variant readings, or the meaning of an obscure term; and sometimes, he is more concerned with medical matters.
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Occupatus (or related forms) is the least appropriate choice for bi-qadr or its variant readings n-q-d-r/n-q-d-d-r.
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This edition discontinued the practice of inserting translations of variant readings in square brackets.
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A fundamental problem in urtext editing is how to present variant readings.
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There is evidence in the text that other copies existed, and that it was old enough to allow of variant readings having crept in.
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The work was done in some haste, and the editors did not justify or even indicate their choices of texts or variant readings.
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Due to the extreme rarity of the original publication, these emendations often went unnoticed, thus giving rise to a succession of variant readings on the original content.
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At the same time, the critical text should document variant readings, so the relation of extant witnesses to the reconstructed original is apparent to a reader of the critical edition.
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He declared his preferences among variant readings.
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It is a work (in progress) in multiple volumes, and is intended to cite a more complete list of variant readings than can be incorporated in a manual edition.
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It gives variant readings from the other leading editions only in cases where the changes are meaningful.
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When comparing different documents, or witnesses, of a single, original text, the observed differences are called "variant readings", or simply "variants" or "readings".
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