emendatory

comparative more emendatory · superlative most emendatory

1. archaicPertaining to emendation; corrective

   We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.

   1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

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   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.

   1924, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting