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▪ I. correcting, vbl. n.|kəˈrɛktɪŋ|
[See -ing1.]
The action of the verb correct.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Emendation, an amending, a correcting. 1882Grosart Spenser's Wks. III. 188/2 The..folio has been credited with first correcting.
▪ II. coˈrrecting, ppl. a.
[See -ing2.]
a. That corrects: see the verb.
1692Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 117 His Correcting Judgments will be turned into destroying Judgments. a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) II. 197 The correcting Birch. a1893Mod., No correcting hand had passed over the pages.
b. spec. in correcting compass, correcting magnet.
1821Kaleidoscope 13 Feb. 262/2 Perhaps this correcting compass might be applied in the round top, if there be not too much iron in that quarter. 1899Pract. Rules Deviations Compass (Admiralty Publ.) 10 Alteration in position of Correcting Magnets. 1918W. G. McMinnies Practical Flying vi. 91 Holes for the accommodation of correcting magnets.
Hence coˈrrectingly adv., in a correcting manner, by way of correction.
1887T. Hardy Woodlanders xxxix, ‘I will take you home.’..He added correctingly, ‘I will take you at any rate into the drive’. |