urtext

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Reading the French that I don't understand parts of, and the English that I don ‎ 't feel is quite right, has left me with the strange sensation that the book I'm actually reading is a third version, a sort of urtext, which is not written.

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  • And the new culture of microblogging, for all its enthusiasm for commentary, lacks precisely this source: The twitterers and tumblrs are not debating with each other the merits of one urtext, several key documents or even substantive issues in the raw; rather, they are commenting on commentaries.
  • Olney's reply ... should be regarded as an urtext of the regulatory state: —  Economist's View
  • Reading the French that I don't understand parts of, and the English that I don ‎ 't feel is quite right, has left me with the strange sensation that the book I'm actually reading is a third version, a sort of urtext, which is not written. —  Qwaider Planet
  • But when you say "central planning," people like John McCain or John Stormer, the guy in 1964 who wrote Goldwater's urtext, —  Democracy Now!
  • 'phantasmic un-body … half ghost, half machine' of Reynolds 'urtext) is a white, middle-class teenager, in thrall to his own unashamedly romantic yet crushingly derivative worldview. —  The Line Of Best Fit
 

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  1. German : ur-, original; see Ursprache + Text, text (from Middle High German, from Late Latin textus); see text.
 

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