emendation
- n a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
- The Chamber refused the emendation in the original bill, sent it back to the Senate.
- This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder.
- There would be no chance in this chronicle, set down fresh every day at teatime, for the kind of afterthought and reflective emendation which usually lessen the historical value .