emendatory

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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 Walsh, Robert

The duty of a collator is, indeed, dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

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 Eliot, Charles William

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association