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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 editingplay

  Familiarity information: EMENDATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMENDATION (noun)


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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