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deleatur

  • /ˌdiː.liˈeɪ.təɹ/

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Borrowed from Latin dēleātur (“may it be deleted; may it be destroyed”).

noun deleaturs

  1. dele (“mark signifying deletion”) […] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]

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"deleatur." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/deleatur.

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@misc{deleatur_2026,
  title = {deleatur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/deleatur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}