emend
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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019
In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013
The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
The chronological impossibility involved in the figure is removed by Mohl who emends it to 260.
From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman
By water, with most editors, emends the text.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater
B. emends and renders: Nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict, in battle-work.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but Bentley emends to 'Sèvres,' which must surely be correct.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
Experience accumulates and man's knowledge grows; the expectation and joy in progress is a part of it; man's code changes, emends, expands with his onward marching.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”
From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016
During the last two years, apart from much else, I have emended the Letters of St. Jerome, obelizing what was false and spurious and explaining the obscure passages with notes.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
The following have been identified as typographical errors and have been emended.
From Baby Nightcaps by Aunt Fanny
The text is quite corrupt, but I insert it as I have emended it from a comparison of three copies.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The following were identified as spelling or typographic errors and have been emended as noted.
From The Trimming of Goosie by James Hopper
It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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