Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of correction; incorrectness.
Wiktionary
- n. Lack of correction or discipline.
- n. neologism A false correction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Lack of correction, restraint, or discipline.
Examples
“Another example of ‘incorrection’ is the people who hear the glorious Yorkshire phrase ‘all mouth and trousers’ and decide that it should be ‘all mouth and no trousers’ out of some desire to impose their own logical strictures upon it.”
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss
“Not really related to the typo (or incorrection) that you highlight, but still weird.”
“Not really related to the typo (or incorrection) that you highlight, but still weird.not my leg(Quote)”
“* For a discussion of the concept of the “incorrection”, see this Language Log post.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Merritt’s Puzzling Dissent in Getsy v. Mitchell:
“It is this incorrection or defectiveness that the idea that truth is a norm of assertion is trying to capture.”
“MATLIN: I take her larger point that in the absence of being able to make persuasive arguments you throw out messengers that — can’t be — it’s politically incorrection to argue with, you know the verbiage is a little, a little stressful.”
“- Some floats would get converted incorrection during research planning causing the LUA for tech research to terminate.”
“First, I'll point a small incorrection in the Irish Times article.”
“The phrase you use is just a stupid “incorrection”, a false meaning to explain a phrase whose real meaning isn’t literally obvious.”
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss
““Exception proofs the rule” is an “incorrection” — it’s a forced hyper-logical distortion of a long-standing idiom, which is what happens when people with sticks up their asses approach the language with one eye, one ear and half a brain closed.”
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss
Lists
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
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fake words by sionnach
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Wordie vocab, wordlets and wordlings, as well as some commenty Wordie threads. Not that you can see anything, mind.
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Tweets
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mialuthien incorrection – "a correction that is itself incorrect" (William Safire)
Now presenting… Muphry's Law
Also, according to Coby Lubliner, incorrection is the incorrect term for it. The correct term would be miscorrection.
So, incorrection is the wrong word for its definition, but it serves as an excellent example for what it is. Jul 22, 2008