What does marginalia mean?
Marginalia means Notes in the margin of a document..
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/mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ · noun
Notes in the margin of a document..
We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.
Use marginalia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Marginalia means Notes in the margin of a document..
Common synonyms include apostil, marginal note, gloss.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
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