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单词 delenda
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delendan.

Brit. /dᵻˈlɛndə/, U.S. /dəˈlɛndə/, /diˈlɛndə/
Forms: 1600s delendaes (plural), 1600s delenda's (plural), 1800s– delenda.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin delenda, delendum, dēlendus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin delenda, plural of delendum a thing to be blotted out (12th cent. or earlier), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin dēlendus to be blotted out, gerundive of dēlēre delete v.
With plural agreement. Words, sentences, etc., which are to be deleted from a text; (also) such deletions in the form of a list printed with a text.In quot. 1645: marks used to indicate text which should be deleted. Cf. dele n., deleatur n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > things to be deleted
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1645 Marquis of Worcester in Bibliotheca Regia (1659) i. 70 I beseech your Majesty to consider the streaks that are drawn over the Divine Writ, as so many delendaes [quoted in C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum (1651) i. 6 as delenda's], by such bold hands as those.
1809 F. Newnham Pleasures Anarchy (1829) App. 206 There are, yet, so few books, in existence, in which they do not find some delenda.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 876/3 This [index] is now printed, together with certain addenda, corrigenda and delenda.
2006 I. Vladislavić Restless Supermarket (ed. 2) 188 Spoilt material, repetitious and dull verbiage, misplaced stops, misspellings, solecisms, anacolutha... Imagine, if you can, the mountain of delenda purged from the galleys of the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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