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What is a variorum?

What is a variorum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
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However, his text is simply reprinted from Burman's variorum edition.
And it's my favorite time too for costume-mending and reading the variorum and other books, and for just plain way-out dreaming.
I once noted the oddity that Hardy had two variorums and no concordance, while Hopkins had two concordances and no variorum.
Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
Furness's variorum edition is at present most useful for advanced work.
See some admirable discussion on this passage, in the variorum Shakspeare.

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