Definition of "emending" []

• Present participle of emend. (verb)

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• "By effectively emending the "corrupt" text, however, this reader concludes that he must be Odysseus, who has saved himself from Poseidon by erasing his own memory; to complete this self-transformation, he burns the book and becomes "no one" (e.g., Nemo, Nobody) (120)."
• "I will cite Foucault's books from their English translations, emending where I think necessary."
• "The scholar who has most carefully analyzed these controversies that involved Catholic rather than Protestant antagonists has concluded that though Erasmus was well trained to undertake the task of emending scriptural texts, his temperament made him unsuited for public controversy."