Reprimand vs Correction - What's the difference?
reprimand | correction |
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
The act of correcting.
A substitution for an error or mistake.
Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
As nouns the difference between reprimand and correction
is that reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public while correction is the act of correcting.As a verb reprimand
is to reprove in a formal or official way.reprimand
English
Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: