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The accidental error of repeating a word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist. / An error produced thereby.

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dittography

Source Word

dittography

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

書写者や写本者が誤って単語、文節、または文字の組み合わせを重複して書いてしまう誤り / その結果として生じる誤記

The manuscript's final paragraph contained an obvious dittography that made the sentence read awkwardly.

その写本の最後の段落には明らかな重複記述があり、文が不自然に読めた。

Sense（1）

The accidental error of repeating a word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.

Sense（2）

An error produced thereby.

dittographies

（ plural ）