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What does emend mean?

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  1. (transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).
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You do not emend Housman, perhaps the most forbidding textual commentator in the history of English-speaking scholarship, and get off lightly.
Fraternal correction consists of trying to emend the brothers through charity and not to punish them.
Many modern editions, including the Oxford, take the view that the novel in part derives from the play, and use it to emend the defective quarto text.
The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend.
Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.
The Diccionario de Plantas Agrícolas and Zander refer to this species under the name R. spicatum Robs. emend.

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