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  ##  [Contamination](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/contamination-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

The mixing of readings from different manuscript traditions or exemplars within a single witness so that the witness preserves a composite set of variants rather than a single, genealogically coherent text.