expunctuationn.
/ɛkspʌŋktjuːˈeɪʃən/ Palaeography.
= expunction n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > things to be deleted > instruction to delete > in palaeography
expunction1954
expunctuation1957
1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon 325 Letters are cancelled by expunctuation.
1968 Medium Ævum XXXVII. 31 Corrections made by a later corrector..with expunctuation or heavy deletion.
1969 M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xxviii [] enclose words and letters which have been deleted by the scribe by means of crossing out, erasure, or expunctuation.
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