noun
- a person who edits or corrects a text, especially an ancient or classical manuscript
Usage: formal; literary; often used in scholarly contexts
Examples
- The emendator carefully reviewed the ancient manuscript to correct scribal errors.
- Medieval emendators worked to preserve and improve copies of classical texts.
- As an emendator of Shakespeare's works, she identified numerous printing errors in the First Folio.
- The scholar served as emendator for a new critical edition of Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Emendators of biblical texts have long debated the authenticity of certain passages.