Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COR-REC'TION, n. [L. correctio.]

1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice, or propriety; as, the correction of opinions or manners. All Scripture is profitable for correction. – 2 Tim. iii.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as, the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as, the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects. Withhold not correction from the child. – Prov. xxiii.
5. In Scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions. They have refused to receive correction. – Jer. v. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. – Prov. iii.
6. Critical notice; animadversion. – Brown.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.