emendation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emendation (plural emendations)

1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.

   The book might be improved by judicious emendations.

Quotations

• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 157

  Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.

Anagrams

• denominate