emendation
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɛmənˈdeɪʃən/, /ɪˌmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
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Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
emendation (countable and uncountable, plural emendations)
- (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
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1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
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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! […]
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1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
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Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.
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- (countable) 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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The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
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1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iv:
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After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated.
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1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
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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.
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1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
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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!
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- (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
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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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