redaction

[Fr.] 1. The act of preparing literary matter for publication; the act of reducing to order or digesting. "To work up literary matter and give it a presentable form is neither compiling, nor editing, nor resetting: and the operation performed on it is exactly expre ed by redaction ." -Fitzedward Hall: Modern English , p. 310. *2. A drawing back. "Takes away all reluctation and redaction."-Ward: Sermons, p. 31.