"emendation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God’s not in his heaven: All’s wrong with the world!",
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        "(countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document."
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