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Definition of Corrigibility
1. n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
Definition of Corrigibility
1. Noun. The quality or state of being corrigible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrigibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrigibility
Literary usage of Corrigibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1922)
"Teachers are sometimes disposed to bring cases of truancy, in- corrigibility,
and indifference to the attention of the Measurement Department with the idea ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and conditional sentences—Flogging—Degrees of corrigibility and recidivism—The
larger view— Suggestions for academic ethics. IN all civilized lands, ..."
3. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1904)
"The necessity of a prison established on reformatory principles for offenders
above the age of legal minority, but not beyond the age of corrigibility, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... grave external reasons combined with hopeless in- corrigibility; if the
religious is a diocesan sister she can be dismissed by her local ordinary; ..."
5. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1871)
".Now, to judge of the moral condition of a criminal, to appreciate his degree of
corrigibility, it is not enough to weigh the intrinsic gravity of the ..."
6. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"... and then proceeds to class all " moral deviates " according to corrigibility
and incorrigibility. The second class alone contains the moral imbeciles. ..."
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