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Definition of "corrigible" []

  • Capable of being corrected, reformed, or improved. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "corrigible" in a sentence
  • "However, there is nothing in this kind of corrigible introspection to worry methodological naturalists."
  • "The problem is that virtue and vice affects who we are in that it makes us more or less corrigible."
  • "Just as individual impressions are corrigible, the system as a whole is fallible, and thus fallibility is at the heart of what Hume in the first Enquiry calls “mitigated scepticism.”"