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A critical revision of a text. A biblical manuscript recension is the result of deliberate critical work by an early (and generally unknown) editor to correct presumed errors in the text. In regard to biblical manuscripts, the term recension is often used to mean a particular family of manuscripts; one may refer to the Alexandrian recension.
an editorial revision of a literary work.
Recension is the name given to the critical revision of the text of an author, or the revised text itself.