2. Adjective. (superlative of correct) ¹
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Definition of Correctest
1. correct [adj] - See also: correct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Correctest
Literary usage of Correctest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"I wish you would use yourself to translate, every day, only three or four lines,
from any book, in any language, into the correctest and most elegant ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... and more necessary in English; and can only be acquired by a daily imitation
of the best and correctest authours. " SAM. JOHNSON. ..."
3. Pearls of Thought, Religious and Philosophical: Gathered from Old Authors by Frederick Saunders, S. F. (1858)
"... doe it in season, when them correctest them, doe it not in passion: as a wise
child makes a happy Father, so a wise Father makes a happy child. ..."
4. The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its by Brainerd Kellogg, Alonzo Reed (1891)
"... unkindest are found, as well as double comparatives, in his dramas. The usage
died out soon after Shakespeare's time. It may be seen from correctest ..."
5. The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its by Brainerd Kellogg, Alonzo Reed (1893)
"... as well as double comparatives, in his dramas. The usage died out soon after
Shakespeare's time. It may be seen from correctest, ..."
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