emendation

The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.

‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]

Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.

Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.

The book might be improved by judicious emendations.

After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated.

An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.

The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.