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Definition of Interpolations
1. interpolation [n] - See also: interpolation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interpolations
Literary usage of Interpolations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More by George Wilson (1851)
"The alterations made on Cavendish's paper of 1784, between the reading and the
printing, aro three in number; two of them being insertions or interpolations ..."
2. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"Double brackets [ J have therefore been adopted not only for the eight interpolations
omitted by Western documents and by no other extant Pre-Syrian ..."
3. Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Victor Langlois, Charles Seignobos, George Godfrey Berry (1904)
"To interpolate is to insert into the text words or sentences which were not in
the author's manuscript.3 Usually interpolations are accidental, ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1902)
"TÍ) are to be regarded as examples, all the instances of Western non-interpolations
are found in the last three chapters of S. ..."
5. The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton (1847)
"UNDISPUTED interpolations IN MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GOSPELS. WITH the exceptions
mentioned in the body of the work, the following are the only undisputed ..."
6. A critical and exegetical commentary on the gospel according to St. Mark by Charles Augustus Briggs, Ezra P. Gould (1920)
"interpolations.—There are in all some 22 or more interpolated verses in our ...
The grounds for regarding these as interpolations are nearly always given in ..."
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