Redaction Definition

rĭ-dăkshən
redactions
noun
redactions
The preparation of written work for publication; editing, reediting, or revision.
Webster's New World
The act or process of preparing a document for publication, especially by deleting private or sensitive information.
American Heritage
An edited work; esp., a reissue or new edition.
Webster's New World
(countable) The change or changes made while editing.
Wiktionary
(uncountable) The process of editing or censoring.
The Expense Claims made by Members of Parliament must be subject to redaction before publication under the Freedom of Information Act.
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redaction
Plural:
redactions

Origin of Redaction

  • From New Latin redactio (“redaction"), from Latin redigere (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state"), from red- (“back") + agere (“to put in motion, to drive").

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Redaction Sentence Examples

  • There exists a mid14th-century Historia do Santo Graal, and an unprinted Josep' ab Aramadia, while, though the MS. is lost, we have abundant evidence of the existence of a primitive Portuguese prose redaction of Amadis de Gaula anterior to the present Spanish text.

  • As to this re-collection and redaction of the Avesta the Dinkard gives various details.

  • But the unity of thought and atmosphere is such as to show that the work is one whole (subject no doubt to a certain amount of redaction and interpolation), and that the apocalyptic part was composed as an introduction to the rest.

  • From the archaic style in which these mythological tales are usually composed, as well as from the fact that not a few of them are found in Brahmanas of different schools and Vedas, though often with considerable variations, it seems pretty evident that the groundwork of them must go back to times preceding the composition or final redaction of the existing Brahmanas.

  • Meanwhile, if agadic exegesis was popular in the centuries following the redaction of the Mishna, the study of halakhah Talmud.

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NONION

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