##  [Emendation](/emendation) 

  ##  [Emendation](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/emendation-0) 

  

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Definition

A textual-critical intervention that proposes and, where adopted in an edition, substitutes an alternative reading for a transmitted (manuscript or printed) text on the grounds that the transmitted reading is corrupt, obscured, or demonstrably erroneous; an emendation is presented as a corrective hypothesis supported by internal linguistic, metrical, contextual evidence and/or external comparative