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In the British unviersities DLitt (or LittD) stands for Doctor of Letters (or Literature). It is a higher doctorate and ranks above the PhD. It is the highest formal award that any British university can make in the Humanities, and is very rarely awarded. At one university I know the key criterion for awarding the DLitt is that the recipient must be an authority on his/her subect. In this context, an authority is meant in a very rigorous sense indeed.

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