conjunctive error

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounconjunctive error (plural conjunctive errors)

plural conjunctive errors

  1. human sciencesAn 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.

    1996, James Grier, chapter 3, in The Critical Editing of Music, Cambridge University Press, page 77
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