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Corrigible vs Emendable - What's the difference?

corrigible | emendable |

As adjectives the difference between corrigible and emendable

is that corrigible is able to be corrected or set right while emendable is capable of being emended, corrigible.

corrigible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be corrected or set right.
  • (obsolete) Submissive to correction; docile.
    • Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
    • He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
  • (obsolete) Having power to correct; corrective.
    • The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (able to be corrected) correctable

    Antonyms

    * incorrigible

    Related terms

    * corrigibility

    See also

    * correctable

    emendable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being emended, corrigible.