Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fall or slide, a slip: only as a Latin word.
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Examples
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And like someone mentioned, the French also have their 'lapsus', so I suppose we'll be forgiven.
Fish Flippy 2005
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His readers, however, probably passed over this "lapsus".
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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The cult thus corresponds to a Lucretian lapsus in antiquas religiones.
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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(I've made an intentional lapsus linguae, which makes for a perfect pun)
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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(I've made an intentional lapsus linguae, which makes for a perfect pun)
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This caused a somewhat embarrassing stir in a classroom when a friend tried to refer to the Kantian professor as ‘Dr. Kant’ and then made a further… er… lapsus linguae.
¡Papeles para tod@s! 1 May 2009, 3:30 PM @ Commercial Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 2009
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Forgetting cannot be understood as mere omission-it is not always a lapsus.
enowning enowning 2008
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Forgetting cannot be understood as mere omission-it is not always a lapsus.
Archive 2008-03-01 enowning 2008
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Did the Miami Herald, who were present, mention this lapsus lingua?
"And John McCain either doesn't know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, thinks Spain is a country in Latin America, or possibly both." Ann Althouse 2008
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That the work contains errors, shortcomings and many a lapsus, I am the first and foremost to declare.
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