emendation
Americannoun
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a correction or improvement in a text
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the act or process of emending
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of emendation
1530–40; < Latin ēmendātiōn- (stem of ēmendātiō ), equivalent to ēmendāt ( us ) ( see emendate) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Harman’s emendation explains why the nomad does not have knowledge and accounts for the intuition that the man in Russell’s case does not actually know what time it is.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
“In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2020
Rather, there is rhetoric, history and mythology, which memorials attempt to fix in some kind of permanent form, beyond emendation or contradiction.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2016
All Rights Reserved. Transcription, reconstruction, and emendation © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press on behalf of the Mark Twain Foundation.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2013
I had once suggested a textual emendation in class, and he had given me a queer look.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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