redaction
/rɪˈdakʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The process of editing text for publication: what was left after the redaction would be virtually useless...
- I said I felt strongly that this was a matter of liaison sensitivity that justified redaction (editing).
- Goldstein brings together the fruit of extensive research and massive erudition in multiple disciplines, wielding the tools of source, genre, redaction, and textual criticism with masterful force.
- Third, I would argue once more that redaction and narrative criticisms are the friend rather than the foe of historical verification.
1.1The censoring or obscuring of part of a text for legal or security purposes.The brief is riddled with the black boxes lawyers call redactions....
- This year, MPs were given copies of their files, already marked with the Commons authorities changes, to suggest their own redactions.
- The Sunday Telegraph, which has access to the files without redactions, can provide the full picture.
1.2 [count noun] A version of a text, such as a new edition or an abridged version: the author himself never chose to establish a definitive redaction...
- Established by the monk Tao-hsüan, this school began by establishing which of the several redactions of the monastic regulations that had been translated into Chinese would become the standard.
- Later redactions of saints' lives tended to omit historical details that were no longer easily understood and to embellish the text with more outlandish miracle stories.
- Both redactions of the original play make Act I, Scene 2 of vital importance in the development of the relations of power between Caliban, Prospero, and Miranda.
Derivatives
redactional
- Rather, he claims that the text is ‘not a seamless whole, but… the product of much redactional activity’.
- Because of the focus on the text as it stands, discussion of redactional and compositional issues is minimal.
- Similarly, appeals to either form critical or redactional studies have not won a consensus.
Origin
Late 18th century: from French rédaction, from late Latin redactio(n-), from redigere 'bring back'.