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noun

Emendation n.

The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation."

Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.

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Etymology of 'Emendation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emendation" Quotes from Famous Books

... three are absolutely worthless. They stand self-condemned. To examine is to reject them: the second (of which Jerome says something very different from what Tisch. pretends) and fourth being only two more of those unskilful attempts at critical emendation of the inspired Text, of which this Codex contains so many sorry specimens: the third being clearly nothing else but the result of the carelessness of the transcriber. Misled by the like ending ({GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH ...

— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon

... Fairy.' So that an emendation may be unnecessary, and lin, the same as leave, might have been ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various

... of revision has proved to be far more onerous than was expected. In the course of twenty-one years the numerous changes which have occurred in India, not only in administrative arrangements, but of various other kinds, necessitate the emendation of notes which, although accurate when written, no longer agree with existing facts. The appearance of many new books and improved editions involves changes in a multitude of references. Such alterations are most considerable in the annotations dealing with ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... [Greek: eti aselgeias] (Boissevain's emendation) in place of the unintelligible [Greek: aitias ...

— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio

... me to any appreciable extent," was the half-humorous emendation. And then: "Who is this ubiquitous Barto who goes around playing the hold-up one minute and ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... right to rouse most cities with their interpretation of the day's meaning. Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation. The steamers, resounding like gigantic tuning-forks, state the old old fact—how there is a sea coldly, greenly, swaying outside. But nowadays it is the thin voice of duty, piping in a white thread from the top of a funnel, that collects the largest multitudes, and night is nothing ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... original preserved; (b) a single copy preserved, conjectural emendation; (c) several copies preserved, comparison of errors, families ...

— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

... not what Caroline meant to say, but she accepted the emendation, with just the slightest air of deprecation. They were both evidently much attached to Howard, and ready in his trouble to forget and forgive everything. I began to ...

— That Affair Next Door • Anna Katharine Green

... the extracts I spoke of from the manuscript placed in my hands for revision and emendation. I can understand these alternations of feeling in a young person who has been long absorbed in a single pursuit, and in whom the human instincts which have been long silent are now beginning to find expression. I know well what he ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Words linked to "Emendation" : rectification, correction