emendation

Preposition: of

text: Wherever the grammar of a sentence was destroyed by the omission, some conjectural emendation of the injured text was made to restore sense.

Converse of object

• suggest: I suggest emendation to " more than big enough " to preserve the rhythm.
• propose: Then he may propose an emendation to obtain a grammatical form or sense more satisfactory to him.
• require: The scholarly reviews that appeared noting its contents do not require emendation, because the book has not been rewritten.
• accept: I feel sure that Cobden could have accepted these emendations of his original statement.

Adjective modifier

• conjectural: Wherever the grammar of a sentence was destroyed by the omission, some conjectural emendation of the injured text was made to restore sense.
• textual: Most scholars attribute these problems to errors in transmission and try to solve them through textual emendation.
• editorial: I have attempted to provide readers with a modernized edition of the text with editorial emendations.
• few: The few editorial emendations that have been made are clearly indicated in red.
• slight: Drawn up by Thomas Jefferson ( with slight emendations ), it was to be one of the great historical documents of all time.
• significant: Western law and society, by contrast, have not admitted significant emendation at the hands of another culture for many centuries.

Noun used with modifier

editorial: The second concerns editorial emendations, where the original scribe has clearly made an error.