emendation
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- IPA(key): /ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɛmənˈdeɪʃən/, /ɪˌmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
emendation (countable and uncountable, plural emendations)
- (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776:
- ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:
- Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.
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- (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
- The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
- 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, OCLC 1072888:
- Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666:
- Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God’s not in his heaven: All’s wrong with the world!
- (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
- The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.
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