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Erratum   Listen
noun
Erratum  n.  (pl. errata)  An error or mistake in writing or printing. "A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Erratum" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rest, I am very far from the sentiments of a certain writer, who having found in his book one fault only, consulted one of his friends, whether he should put down Errata or Erratum. For my part, I subscribe with all my heart to the Errata of Benserade, and in his words ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus

... Middle-Sized Artist (story) The Minor Birds (poem) Parlor-Mindedness (essay) Naughty (sketch) What Diantha Did (serial fiction) Erratum Our Androcentric Culture; or, The Man-Made World (serial non-fiction) Water-Lure (poem) Comment and Review Personal Problems Play-Time: Aunt Eliza ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... out the two first letters of the word HERR, and substituted NA in their place, thus altering the sentence from "and he shall be thy LORD" (Herr), to "and he shall be thy FOOL" (Narr). It is said her life paid for this intentional erratum; and that some secreted copies of this edition have been ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... counsel of the plaintiffs in error—being a statement of the grounds for imputing "manifest error" to the record; and which in this case were no fewer than thirty-four. The Attorney-General, on the part of the crown, put in the usual plea, or joinder in error—"In nullo est erratum;" Anglice, that "there is no error in the record." This was in the nature of a demurrer,[6] and referred the whole record—and, be it observed, nothing but THE RECORD—to the judgment of the House of Lords, as constituting the High Court of Parliament. It is a cardinal maxim, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various

... mean those of ordinary Women)." This, however, was cancelled by an Erratum in the ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele



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