emendation
/ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
emendation noun: the act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
Noun
emendation (countable and uncountable, plural emendations)
- The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
- Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC
- Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
- The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
- After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
- An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
- The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.
emendation meaning in Urdu and Kannada
emendation in Urdu
- اصلاح, تصحیح
emendation in Kannada
- ತಿದ್ದುಪಾಟು, ತಿದ್ದುಪಡಿ, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣ, ಬದಲಾವಣೆ
Examples of emendation in a sentence
- Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster &...
- Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God’s not in his heaven: All’s wrong with the world!1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I...
Synonyms of emendation
Forms of emendation
| plural | emendations |
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Origin of emendation
From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation. Piecewise doublet of amendation.
Words formed from emendation
Words that rhyme with emendation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about emendation
- What does emendation mean?
- Emendation means the act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- What is emendation in Urdu?
- Emendation in Urdu is اصلاح, تصحیح. See Emendation meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use emendation in a sentence?
- Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.
- What part of speech is emendation?
- Emendation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emendation?
- Emendation is pronounced /ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of emendation?
- The plural of emendation is emendations.
Words near emendation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: emendation (page history and authors); emendation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emendation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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