emendation

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Where-ever I have ventur’d at an Emendation, a Note is constantly subjoin’d to justify and assert the Reason of it.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

Instead of ‘Do such business as the bitter day,’ read ‘better day’—a certain Emendation, I think. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Wright, William Aldis

Vague thoughts passed through his mind of composing a great work on Political Economy, or of writing a still more wonderful treatise on the Emendation of the Human Intellect.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Physician As far as I, beloved Friend, can understand, this Medicine makes not for the Emendation of depraved Humours, but is chiefly conducent for the recreation of the Vital Spirits.

From The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires by Helvetius, John Frederick

That useful Part of Learning which consists in Emendation, Knowledge of different Readings, and the like, is what in all Ages Persons extremely wise and learned have had in great Veneration.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph