All 3 Uses of
rectify
in
The Return of the Native
- 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.
Chpt 3rectified = made right
- 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.
Chpt 3 *rectify = correct (make right)
- 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.
Chpt 5rectified = fixed
Definition:
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(rectify as in: rectify the error) correct, fix, or make right