Correction [noun]

This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.

He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.

An imperfect vow, on account of its imperfection, would require correction.

It may be a trivial error, yet there is no false or mistaken news so trifling as to make a correction unnecessary.

But from henceforth he would be just to all alike; and Maude would receive her share of correction for her own good.

Cordelia knew, before the titters of the class told her, what she had said; and with hot blushes she made a hasty correction.

These are exterior disturbances, which make up a tenth kind of correction to add to the motion of our celestial barque.

This edition surpasses all others in completeness, and little is left for correction by subsequent editors.