emendation

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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.

Physician As far as I, beloved Friend, can understand, this Medicine makes not for the Emendation of depraved Humours, but is chiefly conducent for the recreation of the Vital Spirits.

From The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires by Helvetius, John Frederick

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

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

That useful Part of Learning which consists in Emendation, Knowledge of different Readings, and the like, is what in all Ages Persons extremely wise and learned have had in great Veneration.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph