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Corrigible adj.

Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck."

Deserving chastisement; punishable. (Obs.) "He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language."

Having power to correct; corrective. (Obs.) "The...corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."

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Etymology of 'Corrigible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Corrigible" Quotes from Famous Books

... informations, in our relations to the Life of Schiller, and to other things connected therewith, during that long time! Into which I could not in the least enter on the present occasion. Such errors, one or two, as lay corrigible on the surface, I have pointed out by here and there a Note as I read; but of errors that lay deeper there could no charge be taken: to break the surface, to tear-up the old substance, and model it anew, was a task that lay far from me,—that would have been frightful to me. ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

... it demands their transformation." This titled publicist declares himself an opponent of the Jews as they are at present. He shares the popular dread of their multiplication, the fear of a "Jewish Poland," and is somewhat sceptical about their being corrigible. Nevertheless he proposes liberal methods of correction, such as the encouragement of big Jewish capital, the promotion of agriculture and handicrafts among the Jewish masses, and the bestowal of the rights of citizenship upon those worthy ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

Words linked to "Corrigible" : improvable, incorrigible, correctable