[See -ING2.] That corrects: see the verb. Hence Correctingly adv., in a correcting manner, by way of correction.
1692. Prideaux, Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4), 117. His Correcting Judgments will be turned into destroying Judgments.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), II. 197. The correcting Birch.
Mod. No correcting hand had passed over the pages.
1887. T. Hardy, Woodlanders, xxxix. ‘I will take you home.’… He added correctingly, ‘I will take you at any rate into the drive.’
