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  • I always believed any sin was easily rectified if only you let Jesus Christ into your heart, but here it gets complicated.   (source)
    rectified = made right
  • She never talked about it again, instead just focusing on the next season, when she rectified the loss by scoring the only two goals of the championship game.   (source)
    rectified = made up for
  • Nationwide, we've had only three abductions, total, and all were rectified within minutes, given our ability to track the location of the participating children.   (source)
    rectified = made right
  • If I did you harm, I'm here to rectify it.   (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
  • These were usually occasions when rectifying the source of the upset was beyond him.   (source)
    rectifying = fixing
  • And so I chose my specialty to even out the odds for people like Thalia, to rectify, with each slice of my scalpel, an arbitrary injustice, to make a small stand against a world order I found disgraceful, one in which a dog bite could rob a little girl of her future, make her an outcast, an object of scorn.   (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
  • But as you propose to establish a private institution, you will, I trust, incur fewer difficulties of this nature, and will suffer less from the irritating political interference that frequently prevents their rectification; and in this, as in general matters, I wish you every success in your endeavours.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • In truth, the insults caused him no pain, and he was not concerned with rectifying the unjust accusations that could have been worse, considering Fermina Daza's character and the gravity of the cause.   (source)
    rectifying = correcting
  • Government measures to rectify the drastic rise of the yen.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • The authorities rued the fact that they had allowed us study privileges, and Badenhorst was determined to rectify that mistake.   (source)
  • If so, you have to tell me so that it can be rectified as soon as possible.   (source)
    rectified = corrected, fixed, or made right
  • Today I would rectify that oversight.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • Leading Indian business executives have noted that one of their country's weaknesses is that it does not employ women as efficiently as China, and they are trying to rectify that.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • That he seemed to be simply working on the project, rectifying Ben's mistakes without frustration or anger, made her feel a burst of gratitude and affection toward him.   (source)
    rectifying = correcting, fixing, or making right
  • He glances down, but doesn't make a move to rectify the situation.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • In the 1890's, agents of the U.S. Geological Survey arrived with plans to rectify the situation.   (source)
    rectify = fix or correct
  • I'd thought occasionally of going to her, of trying some way to rectify what I had done; and other times I thought it would all heal itself; and in my new life of nightly killing, I had grown far from the attachment I'd felt for her or for my sister or any mortal.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • He could interpret their naked presence in his hands only as a cosmic oversight destined to be rectified speedily, and he was driven always to make what carnal use of them he could in the fleeting moment or two he felt he had before Someone caught wise and whisked them away.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • Still, he had no doubt that the "present unfavorable appearance of things" could be rectified readily enough.   (source)
    rectified = fixed
  • Without looking at me, the counselor rummaged through a stack of forms and mumbled, "Airman …. there was a slight holdup in your specialty request, and, well, by the time it was rectified, well …. don't ask me why, but these things happen …. so …."   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • This is your chance to rectify her mistake.   (source)
    rectify = correct (make right)
  • I shall rectify that error at once.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • "Lineage affiliations," writes the scholar Rene Lemarchand, "could rectify and even reverse the formal rank-ordering established through the caste system."   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • I'm so sorry and I'd do anything to rectify it.   (source)
    rectify = fix (make it right)
  • By intercepting the Amistad, the government not only rectified a mutinous situation, but also verified that the slaves were in fact rebellious property.   (source)
    rectified = fixed
  • He has done it the hard way and continues to do it the hard way--by reason, by choosing, by error and rectification, by the difficult, slow method in which the dignity of A is acknowledged by B, without impairing the dignity of C. Man cannot have dignity without loving the dignity of his fellow.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • My mistake for allowing it, but that can be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = fixed
  • But somehow I think that one will be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected, fixed, or made right
  • It was an inexcusable error I had made, and I hastened to rectify it.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • I want you to make them rectify their crime.   (source)
    rectify = fix (make right)
  • I hope you can rectify that, Mr. Supervisor.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • There was some misunderstanding which the Commandant now sought to rectify, grumbling to himself as he clumped the few steps downstairs in hard-heeled leather riding boots to confer with the aide, a husky poker-faced young lieutenant from Ulm whom he was just breaking in.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • He had the honor to inform me that, in cooperation with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he had submitted a group of special bills to correct injustices resulting from failure to classify correctly persons who were "war orphans," that the bills had passed under consent, and that he was happy to say that one affecting me allowed me to my twenty-seventh birthday to complete my education inasmuch as my twenty-third birthday had passed before the error was rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • They surfaced as they neared the Heads and passed into Port Phillip Bay at the first light of dawn, and berthed alongside the aircraft carrier at Williamstown in time for breakfast on Friday, with nothing but minor defects to be rectified.   (source)
  • Everyone thought she had neglected her boy's religious education and thought more of Rhett for trying to rectify the matter, even if he did take the boy to the Episcopal Church instead of the Catholic.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • And yet, and after more than thirty years, more than thirty years after my conscience had finally assured me that if I had done an injustice, I had done what I could to rectify it—   (source)
    rectify = correct (make right)
  • At the time, many lodges went through a period of rectification and reform, in the spirit of the 'strict charges'—an explicitly irrational, mysterious, magical, alchemistic spirit, to which the higher degrees of the Scottish Rite owe their existence.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • Again Maud rectified the twist with the watch-tackle, and again she lowered away from the windlass.   (source)
    rectified = fixed or corrected
  • A great piece of laxity will be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = made right
  • This had to be rectified, but it was impossible to do so.   (source)
    rectified = corrected or made right
  • Then a man spoke from the crowd, and said that while he was very sorry that the mistake had been made, it would not be possible to rectify it at the present meeting.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • Lydgate did not make the affair a ground for valuing himself or (very particularly) despising Minchin, such rectification of misjudgments often happening among men of equal qualifications.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • A sort of splendid rectification had just been effected in his mind.   (source)
  • This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • Morrel looked at his watch, which wanted a quarter to ten; but soon the same clock he had already heard strike two or three times rectified the error by striking half-past nine.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • "If I have not," pursues Sir Leicester, "in the most emphatic manner, adjured you, officer, to exercise your utmost skill in this atrocious case, I particularly desire to take the present opportunity of rectifying any omission I may have made."   (source)
    rectifying = correcting
  • If so, we are left to dispose of the awful query, whether each inheritor of the property—conscious of wrong, and failing to rectify it—did not commit anew the great guilt of his ancestor, and incur all its original responsibilities.   (source)
    rectify = correct (make it right)
  • Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • My brother said its possible if you have an antenna and a rectifier and something to serve as a speaker.†   (source)
  • The ignition system consists of an alternator, a rectifier, a battery, a highvoltage coil and spark plugs.†   (source)
  • Cables ran from its giant rectifier to the Coolidge tube, which sat on a rail and could be moved this way and that.†   (source)
  • The second their bodies made the characteristic motion of un-slinging a rifle, a slight displacement of the hip, quickly rectified, Alessandro raised the pistol and began to fire.†   (source)
  • It would take some time before it could be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected, fixed, or made right
  • The problem will soon be rectified, for I intend to finish right now!   (source)
    rectified = fixed or made right
  • "Well, for God's sake, I hope you managed to rectify that a bit."   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • Well, this one I could rectify as soon as he was asleep.   (source)
  • A few key people have made unfortunate mistakes that can and will be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = fixed or made right
  • Eddie feels it too, so she attempts to rectify it.   (source)
    rectify = correct or fix
  • Can you make me such a potion, or must I command Lord Qyburn to rectify another of your failures?   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • Somehow, my trying to rectify the awkwardness about kissing him has just made things even more awkward for me.   (source)
  • She is supposed to have been much improved by a sojourn in Boston, which to my certain knowledge — and to yours too, my dear Edward, for you were with me as an undergraduate at Harvard — has never improved anyone else; but from the way my mother hymns the young lady's moral virtues, I fear that the rectification of the deficiencies in her other charms has not been among the improvements.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • His Levitation Charm was certainly much better than Malfoy's had been, though he wished he had not mixed up the incantations for Colour Change and Growth Charms, so that the rat he was supposed to be turning orange swelled shockingly and was the size of a badger before Harry could rectify his mistake.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • But there was no king, and they were in a tent, alone, and there seemed to be no knowing when any of this would be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected or fixed
  • The clinic is short of just about everything— medicine, equipment, and the necessary beds—but I spoke to the director and I think I'll be able to rectify at least part of the problem.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • Mar Lord Ramsay's wedding with a misstep, and Lord Ramsay might rectify such clumsiness by flaying the offending foot.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • By the time the waiters noticed and hurried outside to rectify the problem, flooding the garden with pale light once again, Camille and her human subjugates had vanished.   (source)
  • Even though I would do whatever it took to rectify the awkward situation we're in, he still somehow finds a way to put me at ease.   (source)
  • His pride had prevented him from making contact with the armed groups in the interior of the country until the leaders of the party publicly rectified their declaration that he was a bandit.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • But by then her acceptance of her fate was so deep that she was not even upset by the certainty that all possibilities of rectification were closed to her.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • Fernanda was frightened because until then she had really not had a clear indication of the tremendous inner force of her singsong, but it was too late for any attempt at rectification.   (source)
  • I meant to rectify my conscience   (source)
  • Must rectify our knowledge.   (source)
  • She had accordingly gone downstairs again to rectify her error.   (source)
  • There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify.   (source)
  • Winston's job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called TRANSFER OF POPULATION or RECTIFICATION OF FRONTIERS.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon — not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words — which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes. They ran: times 17.3.84 bb speech malreported africa rectify times...   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon — not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words — which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes. They ran: ... 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify times 3.12.83 ...   (source)
  • On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of The Times leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs — all had to be rectified at lightning speed.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • Fortunately the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a long list of figures, not needing close attention.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • But, with God's grace, I will rectify this and this.   (source)
    rectify = correct or make right
  • Could we but bring him back before the discovery of the Judge's death, the evil might be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = fixed or made right
  • I desire that a statement contained in it should be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • "But if that is so," he said to himself, "and I am leaving this life with the consciousness that I have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it — what then?"   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • His Mediterranean friend and mentor had constantly tried to rectify this situation somewhat and made a point of keeping his pedagogic problem child roughly informed about events down below; but he had not been given much of a hearing by his pupil, who while "playing king" had let his mind turn the shadows of such things into one dream or another, but had never paid any attention to the things themselves, primarily out of an arrogant preference for seeing shadows as things, and things…   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • At that very moment Ivan Ilych fell through and caught sight of the light, and it was revealed to him that though his life had not been what it should have been, this could still be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = fixed or made right
  • Having given orders in the commander in chief's name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • …but if we go no deeper than the intellect, and strive, with merely that feeble instrument, to discern and rectify what is wrong, our whole accomplishment will be a dream, so unsubstantial that…   (source)
    rectify = correct (make right)
  • But there is an influence in the light of morning that tends to rectify whatever errors of fancy, or even of judgment, we may have incurred during the sun's decline, or among the shadows of the night, or in the less wholesome glow of moonshine.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • He saw just the same thing in the socialistic books: either they were the beautiful but impracticable fantasies which had fascinated him when he was a student, or they were attempts at improving, rectifying the economic position in which Europe was placed, with which the system of land tenure in Russia had nothing in common.   (source)
    rectifying = fixing
  • One who had reproached him for deserting her when calumniated, who had urged claims upon his consideration on that account, who had lived waiting for him, who at the first decent opportunity had come to ask him to rectify, by making her his, the false position into which she had placed herself for his sake; such she had been.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people—amongst whom your life is passed—that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire—for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • Thus Venn, in his anxiety to rectify matters, had placed in Thomasin's hands not only the fifty guineas which rightly belonged to her, but also the fifty intended for her cousin Clym.   (source)
    rectify = correct (make right)
  • Tom cursed himself for making that stupid blunder, and tried to rectify it by saying he remembered now that it WAS at noon Monday that the man gave him the bill.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • This was not the first meeting between the relatives since Thomasin's marriage; and past blunders having been in a rough way rectified, they could always greet each other with pleasure and ease.   (source)
    rectified = made right
  • He walked up-stairs, candle in hand, not knowing whether he should straightway enter his own room and go to bed, or turn to the patient's room and rectify his omission.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who….   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying and definitely fixing its pointing.   (source)
    rectifying = correcting
  • At the battle of Borodino, when Bagration was killed and nine tenths of the men of our left flank had fallen and the full force of the French artillery fire was directed against it, the man sent there was this same irresolute and undiscerning Dokhturov—Kutuzov hastening to rectify a mistake he had made by sending someone else there first.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • He continually bewailed his tardy journey to his mother's house, because it was an error which could never be rectified, and insisted that he must have been horribly perverted by some fiend not to have thought before that it was his duty to go to her, since she did not come to him.   (source)
    rectified = fixed
  • Miss Thorpe, however, being four years older than Miss Morland, and at least four years better informed, had a very decided advantage in discussing such points; she could compare the balls of Bath with those of Tunbridge, its fashions with the fashions of London; could rectify the opinions of her new friend in many articles of tasteful attire; could discover a flirtation between any gentleman and lady who only smiled on each other; and point out a quiz through the thickness of a crowd.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras.†   (source)
  • What, you weren't supposed to be able to rectify circumference, or turn any given straight line into a circle?†   (source)
  • The instant their mistake was rectified, the whole party retraced the error with the utmost diligence.†   (source)
  • One day, in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list of the Constituent Assembly.†   (source)
  • This narrative provoked some rectifications on the part of the prince, who, as he said, pretended to know something about that matter; and having satisfied himself that Newman was in no laughing mood, either with regard to the size of his head or anything else, he entered into the controversy with an animation for which the duchess, when she set him down as a bore, could not have been prepared.†   (source)
  • Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?   (source)
    rectified = corrected or made right
  • Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (died 266 A.D.), suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree.   (source)
    rectification = correction
  • …some day I will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it;   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  •   This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod;
      And there is in this business more than nature
      Was ever conduct of: some oracle
      Must rectify our knowledge.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  •   Yes, Nature's road must ever be preferred;
      Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
      'tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
      And treat this passion more as friend than foe:   (source)
  •   That longer you desire the court; as well
      For your own quiet, as to rectify
      What is unsettled in the King.   (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
  •   It is a science to stretch out the strings
      Of conscience in the service of diverse things
      And to rectify an evil action
      With the purity of our intention.   (source)
    rectify = correct (make right)
  • Regard to my family hath made me take upon myself to be the mediating power, in order to rectify those mistakes in policy which you have committed in your daughter's education.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • For this shews man the vanity and deceitfulness of this life, and is an occasion of rectifying our measures, and bringing us to a more modest opinion of ourselves:   (source)
    rectifying = correcting
  • If the periods be separated by short intervals, the measures to be reviewed and rectified will have been of recent date, and will be connected with all the circumstances which tend to vitiate and pervert the result of occasional revisions.   (source)
    rectified = corrected
  • The Parliament of Great Britain, and the legislatures of the several States, can at any time rectify, by law, the exceptionable decisions of their respective courts.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • I meant to rectify my conscience,   (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
  • Jones now clearly saw the error he had committed, and exerted his utmost power to rectify it; but he only faultered and stuttered into nonsense and contradiction.   (source)
    rectify = fix
  • "To that I may reply," said Don Quixote, "that Dulcinea is the daughter of her own works, and that virtues rectify blood, and that lowly virtue is more to be regarded and esteemed than exalted vice."   (source)
  • But you know I never could prevail upon you; and when I had taken so much pains to eradicate her headstrong opinions, and to rectify your errors in policy, you know she was taken out of my hands; so that I have nothing to answer for.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • …but a time may come when this omission can be remedied, and to rectify it nothing more is needed than for your worship to be so good as to come with me to my village, for there I can…   (source)
  • It is not true, in the second place, that the Parliament of Great Britain, or the legislatures of the particular States, can rectify the exceptionable decisions of their respective courts, in any other sense than might be done by a future legislature of the United States.   (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
  • A failure in this delicate and important point is the great source of the inconveniences we experience, and if we are not cautious to avoid a repetition of the error, in our future attempts to rectify and ameliorate our system, we may travel from one chimerical project to another; we may try change after change; but we shall never be likely to make any material change for the better.   (source)
    rectify = correct
  • To say the truth, it is often safer to abide by the consequences of the first blunder than to endeavour to rectify it; for by such endeavours we generally plunge deeper instead of extricating ourselves; and few persons will on such occasions have the good-nature which Mrs Fitzpatrick displayed to Jones, by saying, with a smile, "You need attempt no more excuses; for I can easily forgive a real lover, whatever is the effect of fondness for his mistress."   (source)
  • The most that the convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experiences may unfold them.   (source)
    rectifying = correcting
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  • Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying, you will find the hidden stone.†   (source)
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