substantive

significant, or as I shall call them ‘substantive’, readings of the text, those namely that affect the author’s meaning or the essence of his expression.

(Greg 1950, 21)

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Substantives. In copy-text editing, the elements in a source text with substantial intellectual meaning, for example, the choice of words as contrasted with such “accidentals” as marks of punctuation.

(Kline 1998, 273)

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