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What does emendation mean?

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Noun
  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.
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Its chief value consists in the novel treatment of the metrical questions and their bearing on the emendation of the text.
This scheme started from errors that prompted surgical pathology report emendation.
And this justifies the suggestion of a palaeographically easy emendation that will not produce an interrogative context.
But traditionally liberal education involved hard work in the shape of textual analysis and emendation.
The minutes of last year's meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation.
The theologian, however, could argue that there are instances which might validly call for emendation.

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