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    stemmatology

    stemmatology - Dictionary definition and meaning for word stemmatology

    Definition
    (noun) 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)
    Synonyms : stemmatics
    Example Sentence
    • stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
    • transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
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