English Explanatory Dictionary

parablepsis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.

Word forms

parablepsis parablepses parablepsia parablepsy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”).

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