emendatory

English

Adjective

emendatory (comparative more emendatory, superlative most emendatory)

  1. (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective
    • 1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831‎:
      We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.
    • 1924, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting‎:
      I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.

References
  • emendatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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