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The word 'redaction' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means the process of editing or censoring a document before it is published or released to the public. Example: The government released a heavily redacted version of the classified report, with most of the sensitive information blacked out.
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Edited or censored version of a document.
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Because the information was not classified when the email was sent, no laws were violated, but Friday's redaction shows that Clinton received sensitive information on her unsecured personal server.
The book is also shot through with thick black "redaction" marks, in which an American censor has deemed certain passages too secret to be published.
(Occasionally the author adds a terse footnote to a redaction he feels especially sore about).
According to this view, the Tetrateuch is a redaction primarily of three documents: the Yahwist, or J (after the German spelling of Yahweh); the Elohist, or E; and the Priestly code, or P.
In 1935 the preparatory commission became the Pontifical Commission for the Redaction of the Codex Juris Canonici Orientalis ("Code of Oriental Canon Law").
The Synoptic problem is one of literary or of source criticism and deals with the written sources after compilation and redaction.
The Greek text of the Catechesis, probably an 11th-century redaction of Diadochus' thought, was discovered and edited in 1952 by Édouard Des Places, who also produced a new critical edition of "The Hundred Chapters" (Oeuvres spirituelles, 1955).
This is not so surprising, for, despite the fact that the Yerushalmi is 200 years older than the Bavli, scholars do not believe the framers of the Bavli to have had access to the Yerushalmi during the Bavli's redaction.
Jefferson mentioned his redaction of Christian scripture to close friends but never published it; the finished product was intended solely for his own personal use.
Like the Bible, the Avesta is a collection of a variety of texts composed over what appears to be a considerable span of time by different authors, which has endured editing and redaction at several points during the history of its development.
The canonical Book of Isaiah, after editorial redaction, probably assumed its present form during the 4th century bce.
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