emendation

Definitions

1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
   uncountable
2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
   countable
3. An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“‘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! […]”

“Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue⟳ a cantankerous emendation.”

“The book might be improved by judicious emendations.”

“After some deliberation I decided to publish⟳ this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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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