Deleatur
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 dele (“mark signifying deletion”)
"[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]"
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More examples"[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin deleatur (“may it be deleted; may it be destroyed”).
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