Deleatur

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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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"[…] 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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