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) A chiding, scolding; telling off
   • 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.

References

• “correption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• porrection, renotropic