Emending

Word EMENDING
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Emending"

What do we mean by emending?

To correct and revise (text or a document).

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The word "emending" in example sentences

By effectively emending the "corrupt" text, however, this reader concludes that he must be Odysseus, who has saved himself from Poseidon by erasing his own memory; to complete this self-transformation, he burns the book and becomes "no one" (e.g., Nemo, Nobody) (120). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The scholar who has most carefully analyzed these controversies that involved Catholic rather than Protestant antagonists has concluded that though Erasmus was well trained to undertake the task of emending scriptural texts, his temperament made him unsuited for public controversy. ❋ Nauert, Charles (2008)

I will cite Foucault's books from their English translations, emending where I think necessary. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Patrum, the study of the monks nowadays is in the emptying of cups and not the emending of books; to which they do not hesitate to add the wanton music of Timotheus, jealous of chastity, and thus the song of the merry-maker and not the chant of the mourner is become the office of the monks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Posts and comments often need amending or emending. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Kidd's second charge is that Gabler, in emending his newly created copytext, has "corrected" Joyce's own spellings in English and many foreign languages, revised Joyce's own punctuation and his formation of compound words, and altered such other "errors" as Joyce's dates and money sums. ❋ Rossman, Charles (1988)

LNC is also unintelligible: [omission: Chinese characters] probably would be a humble term for husband as in LNC 6. 10a: [omission: Chinese characters], and by emending [omission: Chinese characters] as in LNC the whole passage might be construed, "You did not come soon enough, and now I have a husband who looks after me." ❋ Unknown (1952)

By emending 'is' instead of 'wæs' (2025), the tenses will be brought into perfect harmony. ❋ Lesslie [Translator] Hall (N/A)

Lehmann-Haupt, Marquart, Peiser, and Rost, for these writers attempted to get over the discrepancies in the data by emending some of the figures furnished by the inscriptions. ❋ Various (N/A)

The second group, comprising the next four names, attempts to reconcile the conflicting data by emending the figures. ❋ Various (N/A)

But he obtained his low date for the close of Dynasty III. by emending [v. 03 p. 0110] Sennacherib's figure in the Bavian inscription; this he reduced by a hundred years, [15] instead of increasing it by sixty as Rost had suggested. ❋ Various (N/A)

I believe I rightly understand the spirit in which you desire your periodical to be the medium for emending valuable works, when I thus guard myself against the appearance of disrespect to ❋ Various (N/A)

I kept it for a year, closely filing, polishing, and emending it until one would have thought it final, and even then I continued to develop and to mould it. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)

I should attribute this innovation to a careless compositor, who tried to memorize too large a bit of text, rather than to an emending editor. ❋ Edward Kennard Rand (1908)

For in his method there is no emending, no super-position, no change possible. ❋ Percival Lowell (1885)

Mr. Burges had been correcting all the proofs of the poems; leaving out and emending generally, according to his own particular idea of the pattern in the mount -- is it not amusing? ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

The task at hand is to restore the works to their original state while gently emending wall labels and the like to reflect new knowledge about the animals who gave their lives, and skins, for the depictions. ❋ Adam Gopnik (2011)

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