correctio en · NOUN
Etymology
From Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correction.
Meanings
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(rhetoric, uncountable) The amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.
This syntactic correctio (self-correction) is not so emphatic as to constitute full ambiguity.
1998, Alastair Fowler, editor, Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets, Second Edition), →ISBN, page 17: