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Redaction

noun

Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form. Synonym: editing.

The act of putting something in writing.

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"Redaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... time in continually larger editions, the final one, of 1559, being five times as bulky as the first impression. The thought, too, though not fundamentally changed, was rearranged and developed. Only in the redaction of 1541 was {163} predestination made perfectly clear. The first edition, like Luther's catechism, took up in order the Decalogue, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Sacraments. To this was added a section on Christian liberty, the power of the ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... tampering with his own arrangement has taken place, the new matter being not added in supplementary volumes or in appendices to the reprinted volumes, but thrust into or between the separate essays, sometimes to the destruction of De Quincey's "redaction" altogether, and always to the confusion and dislocation of his arrangement, which has also been neglected in other ways. Still the actual generation of readers will undoubtedly have before them a fuller and completer ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury