CORRIGIBLE

corrigible

Adjective

  1. Able to be corrected or set right.
  2. Submissive to correction; docile.
    Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
  3. Deserving chastisement; punishable.
    He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
  4. Having power to correct; corrective.
    The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.


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