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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 17, April 24, 2005, Article 14
  

  VOCABULARY WORD: VARIORIUM
  

  (From A.Word.A.Day for Thursday, April 21, 2005)
  variorum (var-ee-OR-um) adjective
  

  1. Containing various versions (from manuscripts,
  earlier editions, etc.) of a text.
  

  2. Containing notes and commentaries by various
  editors and commentators.
  

  noun Such a book.
  

  [From Latin editio cum notis variorum (edition with
  notes of various).]
  

  "A variorum edition would also show us how these elegiac
  poems, purportedly written on the anniversaries of the
  birthday of [Ted] Hughes's first wife, Sylvia Plath, were
  constructed." John Kinsella; Beguiled by the Wild; The
  Observer (London, UK); Nov 2, 2003.
  

  [The recent Orosz-Herkowitz article on the origins of
  the 1792 half dismes includes a virtual variorium of a
  numismatic document; a set of an author's draft manuscripts
  would also constitute a variorium, but these seem to be
  rare in numismatic literature. -Editor]
  

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Date published

• 2005-04-24

Volume

• 8

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