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Example sentences for "correction"

Lexicographically close words:
correct; correcte; corrected; correcteth; correcting; correctional; corrections; corrective; correctives; correctly
  1. Such a correction belongs only to prelates, whose business it is not only to admonish, but also to correct by means of punishments.

  2. Therefore the order of fraternal correction comes under the precept.

  3. The doctor uses force towards a madman, who is unwilling to submit to his treatment; and this may be compared with the correction administered by prelates, which has coercive power, but not with simple fraternal correction.

  4. Further, modesty would seem to regard the correction of our neighbor, according to 2 Tim.

  5. Even as regards that fraternal correction which is common to all, prelates have a grave responsibility, as Augustine says (De Civ.

  6. Now it results from one man loving another that he takes no pleasure in the latter's punishment in itself, but only as directed to something else, for instance justice, or the correction of the person punished.

  7. One is an act of charity, which seeks in a special way the recovery of an erring brother by means of a simple warning: such like correction belongs to anyone who has charity, be he subject or prelate.

  8. Whether the Precept of Fraternal Correction Demands That a Private Admonition Should Precede Denunciation?

  9. Objection 1: It would seem that fraternal correction is not an act of charity.

  10. But fraternal correction is a matter of precept, as stated above (A.

  11. The power and arrogance of the nobles grew; the necessity for unanimity in the votes of the Diet gave them a weapon to stop all progress and all correction of their own malpractices.

  12. Published, after correction and augmentation, from a badly corrected copy, 1598.

  13. The correction of a corrupt text by collation and conjecture, is one of the most difficult and least amusing tasks that a fine mind can have.

  14. The lady who is making yet another correction in her picture is the Countess d'Olbreuse, a butterfly of fashion, who not only raves over painting, but also has a great love for music.

  15. The success of this difficult operation, which occupied two years, and achieved the correction of the anomalous result published by J.

  16. The correction for the aberration of light is said, on high authority, not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the eye.

  17. No correction is required for moisture, the gas always being used saturated with water.

  18. Rule for the Correction of a Lunar Observation.

  19. The disk was attached to the thread by means of knots in the thread itself; avoiding the correction for the small cup usually employed for that purpose.

  20. For the next few years the history of the kingdom is one of progressive correction of abuses or defects.

  21. It might make errors, but he demanded to know whether those errors in finance were or were not liable to correction by the House of Lords.

  22. Tis a real house of correction of imprisoned youth.

  23. Great is the difference between Correction kind and malice keen.

  24. But we are not without discipline and correction to put a check upon these things.

  25. And on the whole, I daresay, society was not much the worse because Ben had not six months of it at the treadmill, for his views of depredation were narrow, and the House of Correction might have enlarged them.

  26. If therefore, I had signed, I should have felt myself bound to be silent as to amendments, and to endeavor to support the constitution without the correction of a letter.

  27. Probably nothing would operate so much for the correction of these errors, as the perusal of the accounts transmitted to us by the ancients, of the calamities occasioned in Greece by a conduct founded on similar mistakes.

  28. An attempt was made in the last Congress to bring to bear the constitutional powers of the general Government for the correction of frauds against the suffrage.

  29. They also needed encouragement, comfort, and sometimes sharp correction for outbreaking sins.

  30. There may possibly be something in it: but whether there be or not, whenever I am cool, and give myself time to reflect, I will love you the better for the correction you give, be as severe as you will upon me.

  31. I may be at first be a little pained; may glow a little perhaps to be found less worthy of your friendship than I wish to be; but assure yourself, that your kind correction will give me reflection that shall amend me.

  32. City Bridewell, Blackfriars, was a house of Correction for the City.

  33. His wife, Napoleon’s great grandmother, was said to have died in the House of Correction at Genoa.

  34. The Mexicans hearing what these townes men pretended, with greate yre made a foule correction among them, as dyd appeare by many of them, which came vnto Cortes with broken heads, desiring reuengement.

  35. An vprore among the Souldiers agaynst Cortes, and the correction for the same.

  36. He refused both advocate and patrones, saying that he was subject to correction by the Church and by learned theologians, and he did not propose to defend the inculpated propositions.

  37. For women, the equivalent of the galleys was service without pay in hospitals, houses of correction and similar institutions.

  38. The correction of certain errors in navigation.

  39. A correction of the first of these errors followed quickly after the discovery of the sea route to the Indies of the East.

  40. Yet to him it must be confessed, that we are indebted for the correction of a national errour, and for the cure of our Pindarick madness.

  41. On the said day, month, and year above-mentioned, I was present at and saw the correction and comparison of this copy.

  42. On the said day, month, and year abovesaid, I was present at the correction and collation of this copy.

  43. On the said day, month, and year, above-mentioned, I was present at the correction of this copy.

  44. I was present at the correction and comparison of this copy on the month, day, and year aforesaid.

  45. This correction does not disturb the general sense of the passage, that the first principles of science are obtained by finding the One in the Many.

  46. The philosophy of Kant, as I have already said, involved a definite doctrine on the subject of the Fundamental Antithesis, and a correction of some of the errors of Locke and his successors.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "correction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjustment; admonition; amendment; amends; appraisal; approximation; assessment; calculation; compensation; computation; correction; deserts; determination; discipline; estimate; estimation; evaluation; gauging; infliction; instrumentation; judgment; lecture; lesson; measure; measuring; mending; mensuration; order; overhaul; pain; pay; payment; penalty; penology; punishment; quantification; rating; rebuke; recension; recompense; rectification; redress; reform; remedy; repair; reparation; reprehension; reprimand; reproach; reproof; rescript; retaliation; retribution; revise; revision; rewrite; rod; satisfaction; scolding; scourge; sermon; spanking; survey; surveying; telemetry; triangulation