emendation

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(ĭ-mĕn''shən, ē'mĕn-) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of emending.
  2. An alteration intended to improve: textual emendations made by the editor.

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noun

    The act or process of revising: amendment, revision, rewrite. See change/persist.

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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