correctioner

English

Etymology

From correction +‎ -er.

Noun

correctioner (plural correctioners)

1. (obsolete) One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     you filthy famish'd Correctioner,

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Anagrams

• recorrection