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- noun Plural form of
correctness .
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Examples
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Nobody had heard about psycholigical correctness, political correctness or any of the other correctnesses.
BAAAD Influences Steve Hulett 2009
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FDR ran on balanced budgets and austerity, the political correctnesses of his time.
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It is the underpinning for the correctnesses and orthodoxies of the day -- political, environmental, whatever.
Shame on the UN Secretary-General... GayandRight 2008
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And still, as language was made for man, he will be no authority for correctnesses which, limiting freedom of utterance, were yet but accidents in their origin; as if one vowed not to say "its," which ought to have been in Shakespeare; "his" "hers," for inanimate objects, being but a barbarous and really inexpressive survival.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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