lapsus pennæ

noun

lapsus pennæ

noun

1

Formal Synonym of slip of the pen.

But the ipse dixit — or, perhaps, more properly, the lapsus pennæ — of one man, even if that man is a writer in the Edinburgh Review, cannot make leniency a good English word.1875, Edward Sherman Gould, Good English:

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