emendation

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

Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.

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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. Samuel Johnson

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