diff --git a/mlir/docs/Rationale/UsageOfConst.md b/mlir/docs/Rationale/UsageOfConst.md
--- a/mlir/docs/Rationale/UsageOfConst.md
+++ b/mlir/docs/Rationale/UsageOfConst.md
@@ -257,8 +257,8 @@
 significant cost, and given that the primary purpose of an IR is to represent
 transformations of code, const is providing very little benefit.
 
-As such, we propose eliminating support for const references in MLIR. This
-implies the following changes to the codebase:
+As such, we propose eliminating support for const references to IR objects in
+MLIR.  This implies the following changes to the codebase:
 
 1.  All of the const-duplicated accessors would be eliminated, e.g.
     `Operation::getParent() const` would be removed. This is expected to remove