emendation

• However, the emendation is attractive, as it shows Fanny trying to make the best case she can for Maria by eliminating Crawford's share in the transaction. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
• He does discuss thoroughoing ecclecticism, conjectural emendation, and the like, but such is admittedly woven into the overall framework of the book. —  Evangelical Textual Criticism
• This is so implausible that it is crying out for a conjectural emendation: "Greek inscriptions" are surely what is meant. —  Evangelical Textual Criticism
• In this instance the NAB scholars 'emendation is pure conjecture. —  Latest Articles
• Allow me but a trifling emendation, and Matthew Arnold's lines will serve to indicate that romance.' —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales

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