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What is the noun for emendable?

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emendation
  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.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Its chief value consists in the novel treatment of the metrical questions and their bearing on the emendation of the text.”
      “The minutes of last year's meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation.”
      “This scheme started from errors that prompted surgical pathology report emendation.”
emendator
  1. One who emends or critically edits.
emender
  1. One who emends.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The following sentence offends in another way and requires the hand of the emender as much as any passage in the original Greek.”
      “The emender changed the original a to e, though the e is still partially visible.”
      “It proved enough for Mike Petke to bench repeat offender Kosuke Kimura at half-time in that game, in favor of young emender Chris Duvall.”
emendations
  1. plural of emendation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Modernist scholars do not reject these tools, but they make two emendations.”
      “An amusing instance of his classical emendations occurs in the text of Shakspeare.”
      “Most of these editorial emendations, very few of which are supported by textual notes, would have been better left unmade.”
emendators
  1. plural of emendator
emenders
  1. plural of emender
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