Present participle of emendate; the act of correcting or improving a text.
Formed by adding -ing to emendate, creating the continuous/progressive form following standard English gerund patterns.
Digital humanities scholars now use computational tools for 'emendating' texts, automating what scribes did by hand for 1,500 years—showing how technology changes the speed but not the essential goal.
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