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noun
The more difficult reading, held to be the more likely when faced with two manuscripts that disagree on a particular reading, according to the principle of lectio difficilior potior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, textual-criticism
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History
Borrowed from Latin lectiō difficilior (“more difficult reading”).
