critical apparatus

noun

1. the variant readings, footnotes, etc found in a scholarly work or a critical edition of a text Also calledapparatus criticus

Example Sentences

Besides the nine known stories — he rejects “Little Eli’s Shoes” as being of dubious authenticity — Rose also provides a substantial critical apparatus, including a guide to this elusive author’s literary influences and an annotated bibliography of Guyavitch scholarship, “a body of work that abounds in prepositions and hesitations.”

From Washington Post

Along with its critical apparatus, the particular merit of Worth’s edition lies in its inclusion of Le Fanu’s novella-length masterpieces, “The Haunted Baronet,” “The Room in the Dragon Volant,” and the lesbian vampire chiller, “Carmilla,” as well as two long stories, “The Watcher” and that frightening account of malevolent fairydom, “Laura Silver Bell.”

From Washington Post

But human rights activists say that the enterprise has quickly become a critical apparatus for suppression and abuses, especially on minority groups.

From Fox News

As if Major League Baseball’s degree of difficulty in attempting to launch a 2020 season this summer amid a global pandemic was not already high enough, a critical apparatus underpinning the endeavor — the novel coronavirus testing program designed to prevent large outbreaks — has shown signs of failing just days into the opening of training camps.

From Washington Post

Their critical apparatus sets the novel in its own time and establishes its importance, in the words of the back-cover blurb, as “a pioneering novel of physical disability . . . and one of the earliest queer fictions in the African American tradition.”

From Washington Post