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conjunctive error

noun

Definitions

  1. An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the…

    An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.

    • […] a conjunctive error is one in which two (or more) witnesses agree, and it constitutes evidence of the parallel descent of those witnesses from a single common ancestor in which the error was originally committed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for conjunctive error. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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