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Reviʹse (2 syl.)

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The second proofsheet submitted to an author or “reader.”

“I at length reached a vaulted room, … and beheld, seated by a lamp and employed in reading a blotted revise … the author of Waverley.”—Sir Walter Scott: Fortunes of Nigel [Introduction].

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Revenons à nos Moutons
Reverend
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