Associations to the word «Emendation»

Wiktionary

EMENDATION, noun. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
EMENDATION, noun. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.

Dictionary definition

EMENDATION, noun. A correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope