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emending
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending .] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. Amend , Mend .] To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary ...
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vb. (present participle of emend English)
Usage examples of emending.
He had finally got the revised court-martial scene from Blount, and would now have to transmute it into readable prose, emending the author’s stupid lapses of logic, illiterate blunders of language and raspingly ugly style.
And if this is just, here is a Platonist emending Plato, here is a man who saw what Plato did not see, and who did not shrink from correcting so illustrious a master, but preferred truth to Plato.