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A slip or mistake
Answer for the clue "A slip or mistake ", 6 letters:
lapsus
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A lapsus ( Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking, something long studied in philology .
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A slip, lapse, or error. [http://dictionary.infoplease.com/lapsus Random House Unabridged Dictionary 1997] [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Lapsus Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition 2009]
Usage examples of lapsus.
But may I remind Pilot Teron that I am his senior in service by some years and that I have access to memory banks, mechanical memory banks, less prone to lapsus memoriae than the human mind?
Hac spe lapsus Indutiomarus nihilo minus copias cogere, exercere, a finitimis equos parare, exules damnatosque tota Gallia magnis praemiis ad se allicere coepit.
Looking monocularly this way and those, it sniffs archaically across the floor and heads for the door, left open by the lapsus linguae of malingering sentinels.
Looking monocularly this way and those, it sniffs archaically across the floor and heads for the door, left open by the lapsus linguae of malingering sentinels.