Definition of "recension" in English

noun

1. A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

2. A critical revision of a text.

3. A text established by critical revision.

4. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

   • The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.
   • The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century and was characterized by the substitution of /u/ for the nasal sound /õ/.