emendationn.
/iːmənˈdeɪʃən/ The action of emending.† 1. Correction, reformation, improvement (of life, conduct, etc.). Obsolete.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun]
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reduction1610
reclamation1629
reclaimer1650
reform1738
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xiii. f. 144v/1 Ye noblis of Scotland..seand na emendation of his lyfe.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 201 in Justice Vindicated The emendation of the Church.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 144 Emendation..of nature is produced by his grace.
2.
a. Improvement by alteration and correction; esp. of literary or artistic products, methods of procedure, scientific systems, etc.; a particular instance of such improvement.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]
rightingOE
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remedying1547
redub1549
restauration1560
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rightening1583
emendation1586
restitution1636
cure1675
reform1700
readjustment1749
remediation1794
redressal1800
redressment1822
1586 W. Webbe tr. Horace in Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. L.i The emendations of Poemes be very necessary.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 16 All this..interpolisht by some second hand with crooks & emendations.
1665 G. Wharton Disc. Observ. Easter in Wks. (1683) 36 A better Emendation of the Calendar.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. Introd. p. vii What would be the Amount of these Emendations..upon the System of Nature.
1783 W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting Pref. (R.) I hardly left a single line in it without giving it..an emendation.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) I. 156 His friends suggested emendations.
1854 H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 52 Leibnitz' emendation of the saying..has passed into epigrammatic notoriety.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table vi. 193 A man's biography with..emendations by his ghost.
b. esp. The correction (usually by conjecture or inference) of the text of an author where it is presumed to have been corrupted in transmission; a textual alteration for this purpose.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text
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castigation?1611
reflection1648
emendation1652
amends1888
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B6v The emendation of Bochartus coming in to help.
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) Prelim. Dissert. 45 Whether the conjectural rendering, or the conjectural emendation, be the more agreeable to the context.
1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) iii. 30 The emendations being often more wrong than right.
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