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Definition of Correctively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Correctively
Literary usage of Correctively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1887)
"If the injury be already done, the writ can have no operation, for it cannot be
applied correctively so as to remove it." It is objected on the part of the ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"Hence, that which is correctively just will aim at the mean between loss and gain.
And so, after a dispute, men betake themselves to a justice; and, ..."
3. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Probably," said Deronda ; and then, feeling that the word was cold, he added,
correctively, " Yes, I shall come," and then released her hand, with the final ..."
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