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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1340|origins=la corrigō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kəˈrek.ʃən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|correccioun]], [[bor|frm|correction]] or [[fro|correccion|t=correction, amendment, punishment]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) from [[la|correctiō|t=an amendment, improvement]], from the past participle of [[m|la|corrigō|t=to make straight, reform]] (see [[correct]]).^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The correcting of a person for faults of character or conduct: before 1340 in the OED.^(OED 1989) Etymonline's first sense, in the mid-14th century, is authority to correct.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Setting right, putting the right thing in place of the wrong, is from 1340,^(OED 1989) and correcting by punishment from about 1386.^(OED 1989) ''Under correction'', a formula of deference, is from about 1374.^(OED 1989) An instance of correction, or what is put in place of an error, is from 1528 in the OED, the 1520s in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) A ''house of correction'' for minor offenders appears in an English statute of 1575.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) Two senses, control and governance (1657) and correcting control (1465), are obsolete.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1340 – correcting a person's faults.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1374 – under correction.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1386 – chastisement.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1528 – a correction, an emendation.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1575–6 – house of correction.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act or process of correcting.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Something offered in place of an error; an [[amendment]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Punishment meant to reform; the treatment of offenders through prison, [[probation]] and similar measures.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A quantity added to or subtracted from a calculation or observation to make it more accurate.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[correctional]]

+ * [[noncorrection]]

+ * [[overcorrection]]

+ * [[precorrection]]

+ * [[correction fluid]]

+ * [[house of correction]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[correct]]

+ * [[rectify]]

+ * [[direct]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}