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corrigible adjective able to improve, adaptable, alterative, ameliorable, amenable, amendable, beneficial, controllable, correctable, curable, developmental, emendable, extricable, fixable, functional, governable, improvable, mendable, perfectible, progressive, reclaimable, rectifiable, redeemable, reformable, reformational, reformatory, remediable, renewable, repairable, reparable, rescuable, resilient, restorable, resurgent, retrievable, revisable, revisional, salvageable, subject to revisal, submissive to correction, tameable, teachable, tractable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Graves seems less interested in theoretical limitations than in corrigible factual ones, such as that of the great Edmund Malone, who "could not imagine the Globe without two hanging chandeliers for lights," as Graves observes, "because the theater with which he was familiar -- the theater of Cibber and Garrick -- had them" (65-66). None of these measures were employed when I was in school, and look what an in corrigible troublemaker I turned out to be. We all, humanists and religious fundamentalists alike, are driven initially toward our beliefs by emotive engines--by emotors, to neologize--but humanism's beliefs are corrigible by experience precisely because they are based in science, whose always,tentative conclusions await the next test that may force revision or abandonment upon them. |
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