correctingn.
/kəˈrɛktɪŋ/ The action of correct v.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]
rightingOE
mendmentc1300
amendment1340
correction1340
amendinga1382
mendinga1400
rectificationa1400
mendnessa1425
redress1448
addressment1481
redressa1529
remedying1547
redub1549
restauration1560
correcting1580
rightening1583
emendation1586
restitution1636
cure1675
reform1700
readjustment1749
remediation1794
redressal1800
redressment1822
society > communication > printing > correction > [noun]
correcting1580
amendment1676
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Emendation, an amending, a correcting.
1882 A. B. Grosart Spenser's Compl. Wks. III. 188/2 The..folio has been credited with first correcting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
correctingadj.
a. That corrects: see the verb.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective]
remediousa1450
amendablea1500
amending1551
reparative1582
corrigible1602
corrective1603
remediate1608
remedial1612
amendful1639
reparatory1648
curative1658
relevant1676
correcting1692
correctory1758
redeeming1827
rectificatory1851
rectificative1863
society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > corrective
correcta1464
castigatory1625
castigative1641
emendative1642
emendatory1660
chastening1667
correcting1692
correctional1838
society > communication > printing > correction > [adjective]
correctinga1893
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [adjective] > relating to emendation > emending
correctinga1893
1692 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 117 His Correcting Judgments will be turned into destroying Judgments.
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) II. 197 The correcting Birch.
a1893 Mod. No correcting hand had passed over the pages.
b. spec. in correcting compass, correcting magnet.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > types of
paradoxal compass1558
steering compass1669
variation compass1669
correcting compass1821
telltale1828
pelorus1854
liquid compass1865
gyroscope-compass1909
gyro-compass1910
radio compass1912
gyro1914
gyroscopic compass1920
inductor compass1922
gyro-pilot1923
induction compass1925
astrocompass1942
flux gate compass1946
1821 Kaleidoscope 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.
1899 Pract. Rules Deviations Compass (Admiralty Publ.) 10 Alteration in position of Correcting Magnets.
1918 W. G. McMinnies Pract. Flying vi. 91 Holes for the accommodation of correcting magnets.
Derivatives
coˈrrectingly adv. in a correcting manner, by way of correction.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adverb]
correctively1627
remediously1659
remedially1742
correctingly1887
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. vi. 124 ‘I will take you home.’.. He added correctingly, ‘I will take you at any rate into the drive.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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