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Corrigible   Listen
adjective
Corrigible  adj.  
1.
Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
2.
Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck."
3.
Deserving chastisement; punishable. (Obs.) "He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language."
4.
Having power to correct; corrective. (Obs.) "The...corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."





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Words linked to "Corrigible" :   incorrigible, improvable, correct, correctable, redeemable, reformable, amendable


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