Definitions for recension

recension re·cen·sion

Spelling: [ri-sen-shuh n]
IPA: /rɪˈsɛn ʃən/

Recension is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in recension (ceeinnors).

Definitions for recension

noun

  1. an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
  2. a version of a text resulting from such revision.

Origin of recension

1630-40; Latin recēnsiōn- (stem of recēnsiō) a reviewing, equivalent to recēns(ēre) (re- re- + cēnsēre to estimate, assess) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for recension

As mentioned above, our Pali Canon is the recension of the Vibhajjavdins.

Their absence from the Gospel of Luke indicates their absence from the recension in his hands.

The author of this recension had little regard for the metre of his original; ll.

Translated into Hindi from the Bengali recension of the Sanskrit.

(c) The Syriac or Curetonian recension contains only three Epistles, viz.

It may have been a gloss, or may have been found by Matthew in his recension of Q.

He and I both think an early Attic "recension" probable, or almost certain.

This recension of the work is much later in date than the former.

The two Latin versions and a Byzantine recension of the Greek contain i.-xxvii.

In the 'long' recension there is a letter to one Mary of Cassobola.

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