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The word "correct" takes on a multifaceted role in literature, ranging from affirming moral soundness and intellectual precision to prescribing exact methods for remedying faults. In some works it validates the propriety or soundness of an opinion or judgment, as when a character’s remark is deemed “very correct” in matters of social decorum [1] or when accuracy is confirmed in calculations and methods [2, 3]. In other contexts the term functions as an imperative to amend shortcomings or errors—whether in personal character [4, 5] or in the recording of historical events [6, 7]—while in academic discourse it designates a standard or norm that must be met for accuracy and consistency [8, 9]. This versatility underscores the persistent literary quest for precision, correctness, and the balance between subjective judgment and objective standards [10, 11, 12].
  1. You had a perfect right to express your opinion, which was a very correct one, I have no doubt.
    — from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  2. This was the signal agreed upon to assure us that our calculations were correct.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. If the valve is a good fit and the float is of the correct weight, the petrol will never rise higher than the tip of the jet G .
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  4. I have a great many defects, I know, and it’s very good of you, Edward, with your strength of mind, to endeavour to correct them for me.
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  5. I only wish to correct little faults in your character.
    — from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  6. However, he desired, that if they observed him offending in any point, and going out of the right way, they would call him back and correct him.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
  7. Now they have visited you, and you have given them nothing; therefore you cannot too speedily correct the mistake you have made."
    — from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  8. It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  9. Hence, as there are four N's to use in HAN, the correct solution of the puzzle is 3,468 (4 times 867) different ways.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  10. Hence, though “C’est moi” is correct in French, we must still regard “It is me” as ungrammatical in English.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  11. It is perfectly correct, but that is the most that can be said for it.
    — from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
  12. He is a charming fellow, I allow, when his news is correct; but when it is not, there are fifty others in the world who would do better than he.”
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

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