0 a note printed at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something that has been written on that page
His tumultuous triumph five years ago now seems like little more than a footnote in history.
1 a note at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something in the text on that page
Finally, using footnotes instead of endnotes would have enhanced readability.
The footnotes to each chapter make explicit the relationship of the chapter to any previous publications.
The book has many footnotes that refer the reader to secondary literature.
The footnotes in the book bear witness to the very great amount of archival research that was necessary during the course of their work.
We are left instead to hunt through text and footnotes for primary material and contemporary reviews.
The many footnotes explain difficult terms and obscure references that would otherwise confuse or baffle the reader.
The bibliographic information on the majority of primary texts is hidden away in footnotes, which makes locating it somewhat laborious.
As with other volumes in this series, there are endnotes rather than footnotes.
