Meaning

(uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
2. (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
3. (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.

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!

The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.

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Use emendation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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