emendation
/ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
Uncountable
noun
Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
Countable
noun
An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "‘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! […]"
- "Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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!"
Etymology
From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation. Piecewise doublet of amendation.