[ad. L. correptiōn-em, n. of action f. corripĕre: see prec.]
† 1. Reprehension, reproof. Obs.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 292. Of charitable correpcion or reproving. Ibid. (1382), 2 Pet. ii. 16. Sotheli he hadde correpcioun, or reprouyng, of his woodnesse.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 394. Thei wolden grucche … aȝens his correpciouns and reulingis.
1582. N. T. (Rhem.), 1 Cor. x. 11. They are written for our correption.
1672. H. Stubbe, Justif. Dutch War, 43. The obligation of fraternal correption and admonition.
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 137. Correptions more upbraiding and severe.
1737. L. Clarke, Hist. Bible (1740), II. I. 34. The Virgin Mother … could not forbear expressing a gentle correption to him.
† 2. A seizure. Obs. Cf. RAPTURE.
1659. Gauden, Tears of Ch., 212. Sudden correptions, seizures, raptures of spirit.
1664. Hammond, Serm. Matt. x. 15, Wks. 1684, IV. 636. A sudden correption and depression of the mind.
3. Gram. Shortening in pronunciation.
1873. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, § 632. The first syllable has been reduced to its present proportion by ‘correption,’ if we may revive the very happy Latin term by which a shortened syllable was said to be seized or snatched. Ibid. The more liable to correption of its accented syllable.
