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emendation Definition


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emend
verb
    emended, emending
    1. To edit (a text), removing errors and making improvements. Compare amend.
      Thesaurus: correct, rectify, improve, revise, edit, rewrite, alter; Antonym: stet.
Derivative: emendation
    A change or correction, especially to a text.
    Making a correction or changes to a text.
Etymology: 18c; 15c in obsolete sense ‘to free a person from faults': from Latin emendare, from e out + mendum a fault.

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