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emendation
The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
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‘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.
Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
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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!
(zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
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