parablepsis
Noun. A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it. .This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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