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Literary mistake
Answer for the clue "Literary mistake ", 7 letters:
erratum
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Word definitions for erratum in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An error, especially one in a printed work.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an error in writing or printing," 1580s, from Latin erratum (plural errata ), neuter past participle of errare "to wander, err" (see err ).
Usage examples of erratum.
I have pretty much accepted my role as simple-minded preceptor, instilling errata, misevaluations, and misconceptions in the minds of my pupils and telling outright lies to their faces.
McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it.
Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.
She could not at that moment easily frame herself anew, not as some staid erratum but as the product of passion extended against great odds.
Jacob into the office where he acted like a demented chimp while she and Patsy inserted five thousand erratum slips.
Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.