Corrigible

/ˈkɔːr.ə.dʒə.bəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Able to be corrected or set right..

Definitions by Sense

1. Able to be corrected or set right.
2. (obsolete) Submissive to correction
3. (obsolete) Deserving chastisement.
4. (obsolete) Having power to correct.

Example Sentences

Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? […] it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible.

Wouldst thou […] see Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down His corrigible neck […]

[…] he was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

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• more corrigible
• most corrigible

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