emend
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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019
In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013
The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A fair analogy would be the case of a chemist or engineer who had recently begun to dabble in Greek in his spare moments, and who should undertake to emend the text of Sophocles.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
The chronological impossibility involved in the figure is removed by Mohl who emends it to 260.
From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman
By water, with most editors, emends the text.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater
So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but Bentley emends to 'Sèvres,' which must surely be correct.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
B. emends and renders: Nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict, in battle-work.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
Experience accumulates and man's knowledge grows; the expectation and joy in progress is a part of it; man's code changes, emends, expands with his onward marching.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”
From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016
In 1542 it was succeeded by an emended edition.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
He has emended by making those changes which ‘seemed most necessary or most probable.’
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
The text emended, with notes and preface by M. Hull.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
Take Mr. Tennyson's, for instance: "The Princess," to say nothing of his shorter emended poems, has been, one might say, rewritten since the first edition, and his corrections are always interesting.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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