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Etymology edit

palimpsest +‎ -ous

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palimpsestuous (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest.
    • 2001, Christine Olga Kiebuzinska, Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 31:
      In a palimpsestuous reading, the hypertext, or the original, always stands to gain by having its hypertextual status perceived.
    • 2021, A. Elisabeth Reichel, Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives, →ISBN, page 207:
      What renders these poems valuable in a post-Writing Culture context of contested cultural representation is a peculiar, palimpsestuous quality.

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