Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of correction; incorrectness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lack of correction, restraint, or discipline.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
correction ordiscipline . - noun neologism A
false correction .
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Examples
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Not really related to the typo (or incorrection) that you highlight, but still weird.
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Another example of ‘incorrection’ is the people who hear the glorious Yorkshire phrase ‘all mouth and trousers’ and decide that it should be ‘all mouth and no trousers’ out of some desire to impose their own logical strictures upon it.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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Not really related to the typo (or incorrection) that you highlight, but still weird.not my leg(Quote)
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* For a discussion of the concept of the “incorrection”, see this Language Log post.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Merritt’s Puzzling Dissent in Getsy v. Mitchell: 2007
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It is this incorrection or defectiveness that the idea that truth is a norm of assertion is trying to capture.
The Deflationary Theory of Truth Stoljar, Daniel 2007
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MATLIN: I take her larger point that in the absence of being able to make persuasive arguments you throw out messengers that — can’t be — it’s politically incorrection to argue with, you know the verbiage is a little, a little stressful.
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- Some floats would get converted incorrection during research planning causing the LUA for tech research to terminate.
4Players.de News 2010
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First, I'll point a small incorrection in the Irish Times article.
Techdirt 2009
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First, I'll point a small incorrection in the Irish Times article.
Techdirt 2009
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The phrase you use is just a stupid “incorrection”, a false meaning to explain a phrase whose real meaning isn’t literally obvious.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
mialuthien commented on the word incorrection
incorrection – "a correction that is itself incorrect" (William Safire)
Now presenting… Muphry's Law
Also, according to Coby Lubliner, incorrection is the incorrect term for it. The correct term would be miscorrection.
So, incorrection is the wrong word for its definition, but it serves as an excellent example for what it is.
July 22, 2008