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Emendation

noun
1.
A correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing.





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"Emendation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the author and his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter
... emendation of vv. 386, 387 be accepted, the two lines, 'Hasten ... kinsmen' will read: Hasten thou, bid the throng of kinsmen go into ...
— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin


Words linked to "Emendation" :   correction, rectification


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