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correctio

correctio noun: the amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.

Noun

correctio (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) The amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.
    • This syntactic correctio (self-correction) is not so emphatic as to constitute full ambiguity.1998, Alastair Fowler, editor, Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets, Second Edition), →ISBN, page 17

Synonyms of correctio

Origin of correctio

From Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correction.

Questions about correctio

What does correctio mean?
Correctio means the amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.
What part of speech is correctio?
Correctio is a noun.

Words near correctio in the dictionary

  1. correcting
  2. correcting fluid
  3. correcting fluids
  4. correctingly
  5. correctings
  6. correctio
  7. correction
  8. correction center
  9. correction centers
  10. correction centre
  11. correction centres

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