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English
Etymology
From Middle English corrigible, corigyble, from Old French corrigible.
Adjective
corrigible (comparative more corrigible, superlative most corrigible)
- Able to be corrected or set right.
- Synonym: correctable
- Antonym: incorrigible
1859, John Stuart Mill, chapter 2, in On Liberty, London: John W. Parker & Son, page 38:Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? […] it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible.
- (obsolete) Submissive to correction
- Synonym: docile
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Wouldst thou […] see
Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down
His corrigible neck […]
- (obsolete) Deserving chastisement.
- Synonym: punishable
- (obsolete) Having power to correct.
- Synonym: corrective
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
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French
Adjective
corrigible (plural corrigibles)
- corrigible; correctable
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