emendatory
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]emendatory (comparative more emendatory, superlative most emendatory)
- (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective
- 1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831[1]:
- We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.
- 1924, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting[2]:
- I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.
References
[edit]- “emendatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.