adjective
- of, relating to, or caused by dittography (the unintentional repetition of letters, words, or phrases in writing or copying)
Usage: technical; linguistics and textual criticism
Examples
- The manuscript contained a dittographic error where an entire line was repeated by mistake.
- Scholars identified the dittographic duplication as a common scribal mistake in medieval texts.
- The dittographic repetition of the word 'the' suggested the copyist's eye had skipped and returned to the same spot.
- Editors must carefully examine dittographic instances to restore the original text accurately.