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urtext

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.
  2. noun The original version of a piece of music or text, often as created by the composer or writer.

Similar words

archetype ur-type artotype modern art archaistic hyparchetype paleoart architype primitive archaism

Often followed by

edition of editions for and in is des und

Word family

urtexts

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