emendation

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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

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.

According to the Emendation of the above Correspondent, the Reader is desired in the Paper of the 17th to read R. for T3.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Emendation of a text is well enough; but the wholesale and arbitrary slaughter of it is quite another matter.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

This column he calls, too, "A List of Every Manuscript Note and Emendation in Mr. Collier's Copy of Shakespeare's Works, folio, 1632."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various