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EMENDATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emendation mean?
• EMENDATION (noun)
The noun EMENDATION has 1 sense:
1. a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
Familiarity information: EMENDATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("emendation" is a kind of...):
correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)
Context examples
Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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