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Correction
CORRECTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.
All scripture is profitable for correction. 2 Tim 3.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.
Withhold not correction from the child. Prov 23.
5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.
They have refused to receive correction. Jer 5.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. Prov 3.
6. Critical notice; animadversion.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.
correction appears in definitions for these words:
Amend Amendable Amendment Bridewell Castigation Castigatory Catechise Censorial Chapter Chastened Chastener Chastening Chastisement Chastising Compulsory Correction Correctional Correctioner Corrector Corrigible Cultivate Cultivation Culture Deal Discipline Dressing Edition Emendation Emendatory Equity Grievous Hand Incorrection Incorrigibility Incorrigible Incurable Interlining Irremediably Overrun Penitentiary Proof Punishment Rebuke Reformation Revisal Revise Revised Reviser Revising Revision Rod Rough-cast Saccade Scourge Supervise Uncorrigible Visit Want Whip
Amend Amendable Amendment Bridewell Castigation Castigatory Catechise Censorial Chapter Chastened Chastener Chastening Chastisement Chastising Compulsory Correction Correctional Correctioner Corrector Corrigible Cultivate Cultivation Culture Deal Discipline Dressing Edition Emendation Emendatory Equity Grievous Hand Incorrection Incorrigibility Incorrigible Incurable Interlining Irremediably Overrun Penitentiary Proof Punishment Rebuke Reformation Revisal Revise Revised Reviser Revising Revision Rod Rough-cast Saccade Scourge Supervise Uncorrigible Visit Want Whip
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