emendation

How To Use emendation In A Sentence

• Modernist scholars do not reject these tools, but they make two emendations.
• Compositors often introduced changes in spelling and punctuation, and sometimes made substantive emendations as well.
• This necessitated some retrospective emendation of the original claims to make the new theory minimally plausible.
• The text itself is ancient, handicapped by scribal errors and emendations of hostile censors over the centuries.
• textual emendations made by the editor.
• Another principle of textual criticism which, thankfully, is not practised as frequently as it once was, is 'conjectural emendation'.
• The theologian, however, could argue that there are instances which might validly call for emendation.
• The minutes of last year's meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation.
• The topic starter also does not have the right to decide without possibility of emendation where the topic should go and stay.
• Edward Capell defined an acceptable emendation as one that 'improves the Author, or contributes to his advancement in perfectness'.