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Meaning of parablepsis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“So too parablepses due to homoioteleuton in the Greek text are irrelevant for the Hebrew text.”
“Vertical parablebsis does not fit either, since it should be in the range of several lines (two or three lines).”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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