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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
emend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective improved or corrected by critical editing
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Examples
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He uses the rare word "emended" -- which refers to minor textual corrections.
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487 (241), _Ic_ (word emended from _le_ without noting MS. form).
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
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I appreciate your careful reading, and I have emended the text.
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Here is the e-mail I got from the Red Pepper and the questions they posed [heavily emended for clarity]
Global Voices in English » Africa: Gay and lesbian voices in African blogosphere 2009
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One of the faculty happened to be nearby and he emended the statement to: the glory of Central Seminary is its faculty.
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The deliberate manipulation of the Biblical text goes back to the scribes who emended and clarified it for their benefit, and their successors who hallowed the side notes and pulled them into the text...
Jeremiah 7:22 as Evidence for the Date of Leviticus James F. McGrath 2010
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Older editors had emended "checks" to "chart," thus losing the homely simile.
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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As his biographer Martin Stannard points out, "Of all the pre-war manuscripts, that of Scoop is the most heavily emended, and further revision is revealed by the substantial structural changes which appear when it is compared with the printed text."
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Hello LaDonna, I have emended the post accordingly.
Forego and forgo 2008
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Clinton-Baddeley read ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ as emended and with interpretive notes by Yeats:
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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