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variorum

variorum

9.9
An edition of a text that includes notes and versions from several scholars
  • noun
  • /ˌværiˈɔrəm/
  • Jargon
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  • Cosgrove's claim is based on a scrutiny of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) and Alexander Pope's Dunciad Variorum (1729).

Examples

  • The editor included various notes in the variorum edition of the poem to highlight different interpretations.

  • Variorum collected studies series, CS 1030, "Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2014)."

    Academic text (2016)
  • Emilie Savage-Smith, Magic and Divination in Early Islam (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate/Variorum, 2004), xl-xliv.109.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I care a great deal about Power's topic; I am a student of Claude Rawson, whose work along these lines has hugely influenced my own and others' thinking on these matters, and I've been writing recently about Richard Bentley and the Dunciad Variorum and Scriblerian.

    Academic text (2016)
  • This variorum edition of Shakespeare's works features extensive commentary from numerous scholars.

  • For his thesis, he examined the variorum version of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' to compare the different annotations.

Synonyms

variorum edition
vsvariorum
  • Jargon
9.9

A version of a text showing editors' notes and different wordings

is the shorter single-word form used instead of the longer name
recension
vsvariorum
  • Literature
9.9

A version of a text that comes from editing or copying, often of an old book

focuses on collected notes and multiple scholars' variants rather than text form

Compounds

9.9

A version of a text showing editors' notes and different wordings

How Annotated

critical apparatus
  • Jargon
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variorum
  • Jargon
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edition
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Surface Forms

variorum singular
variorums plural

Etymology

Variorum comes from the Latin root varius, which means 'various' or 'different' and is the same root as the English word various. So a variorum edition brings together notes or versions from many different people, which is why it collects many comments in one book.