Etymology
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palimpsest + -ous
Adjective
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palimpsestuous (not comparable)
- 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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