Meanings
nounlapsus pennæ (plural lapsus pennæ)
- formalSynonym of slip of the pen.
But the ipse dixit — or, perhaps, more properly, the lapsus pennæ — of one man, even if that man is a writer in the Edinburgh Review, cannot make leniency a good English word.
1875, Edward Sherman Gould, Good EnglishSynonyms: slip of the pen
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of slip of the pen.
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