under erasure
prep_phraseEtymology
Perhaps a calque of French sous rature
- derived from sous rature
Definitions
Of a piece of text, written and struck through
Of a piece of text, written and struck through; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.
- 1904, W. O. E. Oesterley, "The Old Latin Texts of the Minor Prophets", in The Journal of Theological Studies, Clarendon Press, page 94, fol. 66 b l. 13 the letters under erasure were something like cacis.
- 1963, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, University of California Press, page 192, It is not unlike Derrida’s device of writing under erasure in which a term of metaphysics is used at the same time that it is cancelled out.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for under erasure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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