emendation
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e·men·da·tion
(ĭ-mĕn'dā'shən, ē'mĕn-) 
n.
n.
- The act of emending.
- An alteration intended to improve: textual emendations made by the editor.
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emendation
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emendation
emendation, a correction made to a text in the belief that the author's original wording has been wrongly altered, e.g. by scribal error, printer's misreading, or the intervention of censorship. Unlike an amendment, which creates a fresh wording, an emendation aims to restore a lost original.
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