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Meaning of "emendation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EMENDATION

emendation  [ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMENDATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Emendation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EMENDATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Improvement

Improvement may refer to: ▪ Business process improvement ▪ Continual improvement ▪ Focused improvement ▪ Home improvement, the process or result of improving the efficiency, livability, or market value of a personal dwelling ▪ Improvement commissioners, a form of government in 18th-century Britain ▪ Improvement Era, magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published from 1897–1970 ▪ Improvement trust ▪ Land improvement ▪ Natural vision improvement, a regimen developed by William Horatio Bates for improving human vision ▪ Network improvement ▪ Performance improvement ▪ Preemphasis improvement ▪ Quality improvement...

Definition of emendation in the English dictionary

The definition of emendation in the dictionary is a correction or improvement in a text. Other definition of emendation is the act or process of emending.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMENDATION


accommodation
əˌkɒməˈdeɪʃən
commendation
ˌkɒmɛnˈdeɪʃən
consolidation
kənˌsɒlɪˈdeɪʃən
degradation
ˌdɛɡrəˈdeɪʃən
dilapidation
dɪˌlæpɪˈdeɪʃən
exudation
ˌɛksjʊˈdeɪʃən
foundation
faʊnˈdeɪʃən
gradation
ɡrəˈdeɪʃən
intimidation
ɪnˌtɪmɪˈdeɪʃən
liquidation
ˌlɪkwɪˈdeɪʃən
oxidation
ˌɒksɪˈdeɪʃən
peroxidation
pəˌrɒksɪˈdeɪʃən
predation
prɪˈdeɪʃən
recommendation
ˌrɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən
retardation
ˌriːtɑːˈdeɪʃən
revalidation
ˌriːˌvælɪˈdeɪʃən
sedation
sɪˈdeɪʃən
sudation
suːˈdeɪʃən
trepidation
ˌtrɛpɪˈdeɪʃən
validation
ˌvælɪˈdeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMENDATION

emend
emendable
emendals
emendate
emendator
emendatory
emender
emerald
Emerald Isle
emerald moth
emerge
emergence
emergencies
emergency
emergency brake
emergency call
emergency centre
emergency exit
emergency force
emergency fund

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMENDATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of emendation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EMENDATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «emendation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of emendation

Translation of «emendation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMENDATION

Find out the translation of emendation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of emendation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «emendation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

校正
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emendation
570 millions of speakers

English

emendation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संशोधन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

emendation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

emendation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

emendation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংশোধন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

correction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Percambahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Korrektur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

emendation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

emendation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Emendasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự tu chỉnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

emendation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुधारणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düzeltme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emendazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprostowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

emendation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

emendation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διόρθωση την οποία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

teks verbetering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

emendation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

emendation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of emendation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMENDATION»

The term «emendation» is regularly used and occupies the 85.697 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMENDATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «emendation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «emendation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about emendation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMENDATION»

Discover the use of emendation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to emendation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ...
Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought.
Benedictus Spinoza, Samuel Shirley, Seymour Feldman, 1992
2
The Text of the Septuagint: Its Corruptions and Their Emendation
This posthumous edition of Dr Walters' The Text of the Septuagint provides a valuable working tool for specialists in Hellenistic and Classical Greek and the Old and New Testaments.
Peter Katz, 1973
3
A few remarks on the emendation, “Who smothers her with ...
This admitted, it must unquestionably be unsafe to receive the correctness of any emendation of the first passage quoted from Cymbeline, unless it were clearly supported by good and contemporary authority, such as an early quarto, or a MS.
afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard), 1852
4
Reamker (Rāmakerti): The Cambodian Version of the Rāmāyaṇa
6 isur Emendation asur 33 3 bidagdh Pou bidakkh 6 dul l962 duol 36 4 phluv Emendation bhluv 38 l2 ban la Pou pandaV 39 5 narapind Pou narabandhu 40 8 prasap' l937 prasap 4l 5 byuha ma(k) Emendation byuhamar 42 2 anant ...
‎1986
5
Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice
Principles of Emendation 3.2 Emendations are textual changes made by editors when transcribing original documents. The most common forms of emendation include capitalizing proper nouns and first letters of sentences and supplying ...
Michael E. Stevens, Steven B. Burg, 1997
6
The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings
Scholars agree that the brief Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (TIE) is the earliest piece of philosophical writing that we have from Spinoza. It probably dates from the period immediately after his excommunication, between 1657 and  ...
Benedictus de Spinoza, Michael L. Morgan, 2006
7
Shakespeare Criticism
4 Principles of Emendation in Shakespeare1 W.W. GREG The Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge2 has said what is perhaps the last word on the subject of emendation, in a passage that runs as follows : 'A textual critic engaged ...
Anne Bradby, 2000
8
Meaning in Spinoza's Method
In these sections I will try to show that in the TIE Spinoza draws on and alters Francis Bacon's theory of mental tools, Gersonides' theory of emendation, and Descartes' account of innate ideas, and uses them for his own ends. The final section ...
Aaron V. Garrett, 2003
9
No Longer Written: The Use of Conjectural Emendation in the ...
The Use of Conjectural Emendation in the Restoration of the Text of the New Testament, the Epistle of James As a Case Study Ryan Donald Wettlaufer. In the field of language and textual criticism a twentieth—century editor is unlikely to better ...
Ryan Donald Wettlaufer, 2013
10
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Emanuel Tov. as an emendation.1 At first glance this terminology would appear to be correct since for students of the Hebrew Bible fli is the central text, with which the remaining textual witnesses are compared. This procedure, however, is a ...
Emanuel Tov, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMENDATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term emendation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Layer Structure Enhances Light Absorption
Non-uniformity emendation technique for amorphous silicon flat-panel detectors used for industrial X-ray digital radiography. Measurement, Vol. 41, Issue 7, pp. «Photonics.com, Jun 15»
2
The Great Tree Bracha Controversy
Still, though, it is rather difficult to make an emendation in the Talmudic text with no other extant version that would have that text. «Yeshiva World News, May 15»
3
Kahn's Concrete
In the end, they reveal a man prone to constant emendation, whose failings, and acute understanding of them, informed a truly monumental body of work. «Metropolis Magazine, Apr 15»
4
Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it's still full of powerful art
... criminal depredations on Africa for centuries — it not only allows for, but demands emendation by artists who come from outside that tradition. «Washington Post, Apr 15»
5
The Meaning of Magna Carta in the Era of Privatization
The Charter of the Forest is largely excluded, and the emendation to chapter 7 made in 1217 concerning the widow's reasonable estovers in ... «CounterPunch, Apr 15»
6
Law Min bats for speedy disposal of commercial disputes
... and Conciliation Act, 1996, which the Centre has taken into consideration while proposing to emendation of the act, the minister said. «Chandigarh Tribune, Mar 15»
7
The Future Was Latin America
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is a necessary emendation to this historical oversight. «Metropolis Magazine, Mar 15»
8
Expressing concerns about blood libel and free speech
This emendation facilitated the transition to his accusation that Hindley's words were synonymous with blood libel, the untrue, infamous and ... «The Justice, Mar 15»
9
Homo liber, homo idioticus
The Charter of the Forest is largely excluded, and the emendation to chapter 7 made in 1217 concerning the widow's reasonable estovers in ... «Open Democracy, Mar 15»
10
UCLA student told she could not serve – because she is Jewish
After the faculty member's emendation to the seemingly obstinate discussion of conflict of interest, the council members eventually unanimously ... «The College Fix, Feb 15»

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