Sentences with corrigible
cor·ri·gi·ble
C c - A corrigible criminal.
- A corrigible theory.
- This means that knowledge is not only fallible but is also corrigible - it can be corrected by the same sorts of operations as discover errors.
- It is always corrigible, subject to perpetual modification.
- Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
- He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
- In fact, he used his supposed elephantine hide to conceal a gentleness and a forbearance that allowed corrigible error and a toughness that demanded quality at all times from the scientists he corrected.
- In all such cases, I will argue, political discrimination can be understood in terms of certain corrigible cognitive errors that characterize prereflective xenophobia.
- The [ …] corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.