Pronunciation: cor-rec'-ti-o
Alternate Spelling: L. “correction, amendment”
The amending of a term or phrase just employed; or, a futher specifying of meaning, especially by indicating what something is not (which may occur either before or after the term or phrase used). A kind of redefinition, often employed as a parenthesis (an interruption) or as a climax.
Hamlet employs correctio when he expresses his unhappiness at the marriage of his mother and uncle so soon after his father's death: That it should come [to this]! But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two.