correption

English

Etymology

From Latin correptio (“seizure”), from corripere (“to seize”).

Noun

correption (countable and uncountable, plural correptions)

1. (poetry) A shortening in pronunciation.
2. (obsolete) chiding; reproof; reproach
   • 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption, page 5:

     That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “correption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• porrection, renotropic