Sentence examples for emendation from inspiring English sources
The word "emendation" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in the context of making corrections or improvements to a text or manuscript. Example: "The editor suggested several emendations to enhance the clarity of the article." Alternatives include "correction" or "revision."
noun
The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
"The world will little note nor long remember our emendation of this institution's record – but we must do as conscience demands".
Part of his animus against al-Qaeda appears to derive from a literary tiff: Mr al-Zawahiri's unauthorised emendation of a gripping tome of Mr al-Shareef's called "The Compendium of the Pursuit of Divine Knowledge".
Incorrect transcription in the preceding centuries (some 14 instances are beyond repair), however, has invited frequent and often uncertain emendation.
If there is only one witness to a text, collation and recension are synonymous, and the critic passes straight to examination and emendation.
The attempt to restore the transmitted text to its authentic state is called emendation.
None of this means that a Hebrew manuscript, an ancient version, or a conjectural emendation cannot yield a reading superior to that in the received Hebrew text.
When the commission reported, unionists opposed its proposals; the former Northern Ireland secretary of state, Peter Mandelson, then amended them to try to placate the unionists; his emendations have since been amended to placate nationalists.That accounts for the odd state of affairs that now prevails.
In the House it led to emendations of the bill to restrict trading in carbon derivatives and thus both the scope for banks to make money and the usefulness of the market.Senator Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, co-sponsored a previous bill to curb emissions because she was worried about the effect of climate change on the coastline.
It has a dual critical apparatus with textual emendations separated from the manuscript and versional variants.
Polo also seems to have made emendations himself on various copies of the work during the last 20 years or so of his life.
These tell of divergent readings in Temple scrolls of the Pentateuch, of official "book correctors" in Jerusalem, of textual emendations on the part of scribes, and of the utilization of sigla (signs or abbreviations) for marking suspect readings and disarranged verses.
