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corrector

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From Middle English corrector, correctour, equivalent to correct + -or.

noun correctors · correctour

  1. One who corrects. Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly.
  2. obsolete A proofreader. Seeing therefore those who now possess the employment by all evident signs wish themselves well rid of it; and that no man of worth, none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours, is ever likely to succeed them, except he mean to put himself to the salary of a press corrector; we may easily for
  3. obsolete A director or governor.

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@misc{corrector_2026,
  title = {corrector},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corrector},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}