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STEMMATICS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The 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)play

Example:

transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics

Synonyms:

stemmatics; stemmatology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stemmatics" is a kind of...):

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

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