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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 Timothy 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. Proverbs 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. Jeremiah 5 .
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. Proverbs 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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Correction'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/correction.html.
Entry for 'Correction'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/correction.html.
