Associations to the word «Recension»

Wiktionary

RECENSION, noun. A critical revision of a text.
RECENSION, noun. A text established by critical revision.
RECENSION, noun. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky