corrigible
adj/ˈkɔːr.ə.dʒə.bəl/US
Etymology
From Middle English corrigible, corigyble, from Old French corrigible.
- derived from corrigible
- inherited from corrigible
Definitions
Able to be corrected or set right.
Submissive to correction
- Wouldst thou […] see Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down His corrigible neck […]
Deserving chastisement.
- […] he was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language.
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Having power to correct.
The neighborhood
- neighborcorrigibleness
- neighborcorrigibility
- neighborincorrigible
- neighborcorrectable
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for corrigible. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA