Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a corrective manner; as a corrective; correctingly.
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- adverb In a
corrective manner; so as tocorrect something.
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Examples
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Bitter people, get over it and work to correctively solve problems.
Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009
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Mr Dombey waited until Mrs Pipchin had done bridling and shaking her head, and frowning down a legion of Bitherstones and Pankeys; and then said quietly, but correctively, βHe, my good madam, he.β
Dombey and Son 2007
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And just as one is triumphantly sizing up this thin elite, one thinks correctively of that great fantasist Kafka, or even of Beckett, two writers whose impress can be felt, perhaps surprisingly, on Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel.
Compare & Contrast 2005
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And just as one is triumphantly sizing up this thin elite, one thinks correctively of that great fantasist Kafka, or even of Beckett, two writers whose impress can be felt, perhaps surprisingly, on Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Out of this experience comes the strong conviction that the teacher of public speaking should be a vocal technician and a vocal physician, able to teach constructively and to treat correctively, knowing all he can of all that has been taught before, but teaching only as much of what he knows as is necessary to any individual.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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"You, sir, at that age were already a father," said Max correctively.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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Or, when Bernstein says that "Sensation, i. e., the stimulation of the sensorium and the passage of this stimulation to the brain, does not in itself imply the perception of an object or an event in the external world," we gather that the objectivity of the perception works correctively not more than one time out of many.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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"_Our_ niece, too -- sort o '," she added, correctively; for Eliza Marshall made little of certain vague ties to a half-brother.
With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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'Yes,' pursued the other, correctively, 'but not in a way that would seem incredible to anyone whatever.
Born in Exile George Gissing 1880
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"You mean, we'll take them now," said Will, correctively.
Will of the Mill George Manville Fenn 1870
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