emendatory
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What he undertook he has well enough performed; but as he neither attempts judicial or emendatory criticism, he employs rather his memory than his sagacity.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
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 Isaac Disraeli
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 Robert Walsh
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Charles William Eliot
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