| correctio |
| cor-rec'-ti-o | L. “correction, amendment” |
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The amending of a term or phrase just employed; or, a futher specifying of meaning, especially by indicating what something is not (which may occur either before or after the term or phrase used). A kind of redefinition, often employed as a parenthesis (an interruption) or as a climax. | |
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| Hamlet
employs correctio when he expresses his unhappiness at the marriage
of his mother and uncle so soon after his father's death: That it should come [to this]! But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two. —Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.137-38 I desire not your love, but your submissive obedience. |
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| Sources: | Ad Herennium 4.26.36; Melanch. d3v ("correctio""epanorthosis" "metanoia"); Peacham (1577) K2v | |
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