Literary notes about revise (AI summary)
The term "revise" has been deployed in a variety of literary contexts, reflecting both its literal and metaphorical meanings. In instructional works, such as those on public speaking ([1], [2]), "revise" is used to denote the process of refining and improving written or oral compositions, suggesting careful reworking and reconsideration ([3], [4]). In historical and political texts, it frequently refers to the formal alteration of documents or constitutions ([5], [6], [7]), underscoring a deliberate, systematic change. Meanwhile, in creative literature, including poetry and narrative memoirs ([8], [9], [10], [11], [12]), the term captures a broader sense of reevaluation and personal reinterpretation, often conveying a continuous, dynamic process of learning and adaptation ([13], [14], [15]). This rich usage illustrates the layered implications of "revise" as both a practical tool for correction and a metaphor for intellectual and creative transformation ([16], [17]).
- 2. Revise the introduction to any of your written addresses, with the teachings of this chapter in mind.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - The great majority, however, will take notes, classify their notes, write a hasty first draft, and then revise the speech.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - REVISE, reconsider a sentence.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson - REVISE, reconsider a sentence.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson - Six years hence New York proposes to revise her Constitution.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Six years hence, the men of New York purpose to revise our State Constitution.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Ohio, too, is soon to revise her Constitution, and we trust she will not be far behind New York in recognizing the full equality of woman.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - will think your price too much:' "Not, Sir, if you revise it, and retouch."
— from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope - Indeed, Mr. Casaubon was not used to expect that he should have to repeat or revise his communications of a practical or personal kind.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - Some of her opinions Miss Sullivan would like to enlarge and revise.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - And, among the worthy people who have so kindly received us, I revise my record of these adventures once more.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - And they kindly undertook to revise the composition.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - This only is certain, that the theoretic faculty lives between two fires which never give her rest, and make her incessantly revise her formulations.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - To revise science in this spirit would be merely to extend it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - The individual may return upon, revise, restate, enlarge, and analyze the facts out of which suggestion springs .
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Press "R" to revise the list, and enter Saltrod Horror Show somewhere on the list.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - will think your price too much:’ “Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.”
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope
