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Inerratain-eh-vah-tuh

n. A kind of mistake you wouldn't take back even if you could; the reluctance to disown a broken relationship or agonizing experience that has since become part of who you are, and trying to disown it would mean you're trying to live some other life.

Etymology

Latin in-, not + errata, mistakes in a printed work.

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