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Edition vs Recension - What's the difference?

edition | recension |

As nouns the difference between edition and recension

is that edition is edition while recension is recension.

edition

English

Noun

(wikipedia edition) (en noun)
  • A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
  • The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "edition")

    Derived terms

    * bulldog edition

    recension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A critical revision of a text.
  • A text established by critical revision.
  • A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.
    • The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions''' of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian '''Recension''' and the Macedonian '''Recension .
    The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century and was characterized by the substitution of /u/ for the nasal sound /รต/.

    See also

    * redaction

    Anagrams

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