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nounstemmatology (uncountable)
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nounSynonym of stemmatics.
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nounthe humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
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stemmatology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemmatology
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“stemmatology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemmatology. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stemmatology,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemmatology.
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