Both Uses of
rectify
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- 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.
Chpt 1 *rectify = correct (make it right)
- Could we but bring him back before the discovery of the Judge's death, the evil might be rectified.
Chpt 20rectified = fixed or made right
Definition:
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(rectify as in: rectify the error) correct, fix, or make right