emendatory

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How far it is legitimate, emendatory critics may determine; but by transposing the B and L, the word becomes Sa-lab-ingii.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial by which faults and beauties are remarked; or emendatory, by which depravations are corrected.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William

Others deny the liceity, for sterilization does not achieve the essential purposes of punishment; it is not corrective, preventive, retributive, or emendatory.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

When these extraordinary specimens of emendatory and illustrative criticism appeared in the “General Dictionary,” with general readers they excited all the astonishment of perfect novelty.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac