1. To free from faults or errors; correct.
2. To edit or change a text.
Then, wrapped in silence, Nola hurled herself once more against everything she knew she could not remit or revise, could never emend, could only begin to imagine.
-- Susan Dodd, O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella
In editing Griffith, there is a temptation to emend away a considerable number of commas in the copy texts as frank errors, for example, those commas that separate subjects and verbs, in violation of one of our modern rules.
-- Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Cynthia Booth Ricciardi, Susan Staves, The delicate distress
Emend comes from the Latin emendare, "to free from fault."
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