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Definition of Lapsus
1. Noun. A slip, lapse, or error.[ Random House Unabridged Dictionary 1997][ Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003] ¹
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Definition of Lapsus
1. a mistake [n LAPSUS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapsus
Literary usage of Lapsus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"lapsus CALAMI WILL there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse
Of a prose which knows no reason And an ..."
2. Celebrities I Have Known: With Episodes, Political, Social, Sporting, and by William Pitt Lennox (1876)
"Among the numerous instances in which the lapsus linguae of performers have
convulsed the audiences with laughter, may be mentioned that which oc- cured to ..."
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