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Grammar : Adv |
Spell : kuh-rekt |
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈrɛkt |
Definition of correctly
Origin :- mid-14c., "to set right, rectify" (a fault or error), from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere "to put straight, reduce to order, set right;" in transferred use, "to reform, amend," especially of speech or writing, from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + regere "to lead straight, rule" (see regal). Originally of persons; with reference to writing, etc., attested from late 14c. Related: Corrected; correcting.
- adv right
- I've always been taken with the chap; and I'm very glad you read him correctly.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- You have defined her character, my dear sir, as correctly as if you had known her from her birth.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- I see, rather, that accounts which other people keep have been correctly kept.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- In after years, it was carefully and correctly drawn in all its aspects.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 » by Various
- The possibility must exist to use it correctly in exchange for other goods.
- Extract from : « Bremen Cotton Exchange » by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
- And must not that which is correctly called both, be also two?
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- No, said Zeno; you have correctly understood my general purpose.
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- She came to an anchor, correctly by the chart, off the Brenzett Coastguard station.
- Extract from : « Amy Foster » by Joseph Conrad
- And the question is—Can they be correctly grouped after this method?
- Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer
- How correctly they have instructed you in all the details of this affair!
- Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
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