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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a correcting manner; by way of correction.

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  • Inexpressibly dear as she was to him, he offered her his arm with the most reserved air, as he added, correctingly, “I will take you, at any rate, into the drive.”

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Inexpressibly dear as she was to him, he offered her his arm with the most reserved air, as he added, correctingly, "I will take you, at any rate, into the drive."

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • "All I meant was," said Dick, rather sorry that he had spoken correctingly to a guest, "that 'tis in the dance; and a man has hardly any right to hack and mangle what was ordained by the regular dance-maker, who, I daresay, got his living by making 'em, and thought of nothing else all his life."

    Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884

  • 'I said I would not tell any architect myself,' interposed Paula correctingly.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • "That is, YOU don't put it," suggested Winch, correctingly.

    The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877

  • "To blow the organ," said the girl in the dark, correctingly.

    The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877

  • "Matthew Moon, memi," said Henery Fray, correctingly, from behind her chair, to which point he had edged himself.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • “Matthew Moon, mem,” said Henery Fray, correctingly, from behind her chair, to which point he had edged himself.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • 'A serviceable dog, 'Agostino remarked correctingly.

    Vittoria — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • 'A serviceable dog, 'Agostino remarked correctingly.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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