Definition of correction

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Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..

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Redress :: Redress (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
Interline :: Interline (v. t.) To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book..
Revise :: Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Uncorrigible :: Uncorrigible (a.) Incorrigible; not capable of correction.
Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith..
Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..
Rod :: Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement..
Amendment :: Amendment (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Correction :: Correction (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction..
Incorrection :: Incorrection (n.) Want of correction, restraint, or discipline..
Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
Incorrigible :: Incorrigible (a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error..
Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish..
Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..
Amendment :: Amendment (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Correctory :: Correctory (a.) Containing or making correction; corrective.
Spinstress :: Spinster (n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Castigation :: Castigation (n.) Emendation; correction.
Discipline :: Discipline (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
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