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Webster 1913 Edition
Variorum
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Vaˊri-o′rum
,Adj.
[L., abbrev. fr.
cum notis variorum
with notes of various persons.] Containing notes by different persons; – applied to a publication;
as, a
. variorum
edition of a bookDefinition 2024
variorum
variorum
English
Noun
variorum (plural variorums or variora)
- An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
- 2007: Johnson set out to produce a variorum, compiling and summarising the history of Shakespearean emendation and annotation — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, London Review of Books 29:9, p. 5