Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of paper over
1 more example
Yet the contradictions between the theory of the world represented by Church and state at the public level, and the rapidly changing circumstances in which people found themselves, at different times and in different places, could not be papered over so easily by the imposition of a rationale from above.
1997, John F. Haldon, “Conclusion: The Transformation of a Culture”, in Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 437
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