Definitions for emendation

emendation e·men·da·tion

Spelling: [ee-muh n-dey-shuh n, em-uh n-]
IPA: /ˌi mənˈdeɪ ʃən, ˌɛm ən-/

Emendation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 608 anagrams from letters in emendation (adeeimnnot).

Definitions for emendation

noun

  1. a correction or change, as of a text.
  2. the act of emending.

Origin of emendation

1530-40; Latin ēmendātiōn- (stem of ēmendātiō), equivalent to ēmendāt(us) (see emendate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for emendation

The emendation is plausible, even probable, but not warranted by necessity.

Not that quite; but, rather, a question of emendation and revision.

Neither did the orthodox, at first, refuse admittance to the spirit of emendation.

There does not seem any reason for Tyrrell's emendation of num for nam.

It is purely an Americanism, and is possibly but an emendation of our own word elope.

An emendation has been proposed, by which "Lebanon" should be transferred from ver.

The meaning of the verse is obvious, whether the emendation is accepted or not.

Moreover, it would have been easy, to supply the emendation.

The one fault you found is just: but I cannot please myself in an emendation.

With him, the work of revision and emendation was never finished.

Word Value for emendation
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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