EMENDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emendation mean? 

• EMENDATION (noun)
  The noun EMENDATION has 1 sense:

1. a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing

  Familiarity information: EMENDATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMENDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("emendation" is a kind of...):

correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

 Context examples 

Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)