Both Uses
revise
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)
- I retrieved my journal and wrote another entry, opposite the first, in which I revised the memory.
p. 196.8revised = changed what was said
- Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality: I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught.
p. 238.7 *revision = making changes
Definitions:
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(1)
(revise) to change (and hopefully improve) -- most frequently to improve a written document, but it can be any intentional change such as a change in an estimated amount, a plan, or a series of procedures
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the UK, revise can also mean to review material previously studied to prepare for a test.