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correctour

correctour is the obsolete form of corrector.

Meaning of corrector

Noun

corrector (plural correctors)

  1. One who corrects.
    • Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A proofreader.
    • Seeing therefore those who now possess the employment by all evident signs wish themselves well rid of it; and that no man of worth, none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours, is ever likely to succeed them, except he mean to put himself to the salary of a press corrector; we may easily...1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) A director or governor.

Forms of correctour

pluralcorrectours

Questions about correctour

What is correctour the obsolete form of?
Correctour is the obsolete form of corrector.

Words near correctour in the dictionary

  1. corrector magnets
  2. correctors
  3. correctorship
  4. correctorships
  5. correctory
  6. correctour
  7. correctours
  8. correctress
  9. correctresses
  10. correctrix
  11. corrects

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