What's the difference between chastening and correction?
Chastening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chasten
Example Sentences:
(1) The setbacks have made for a chastening climbdown for Ineos, given the confidence with which Ratcliffe announced his intentions in 2014.
(2) Ai emerged from his ordeal in June, far slimmer – having lost almost 10kg, some of which he has regained – and apparently chastened.
(3) They scramble quickly back to the feet, looking chastening but not undaunted - which is just as well because if they do not finish today's stage all their previous exertions will have been for nothing, like being expelled from college on the eve of graduation day.
(4) He is learning to live with the regrets - it is a chastening experience after a 45-year unblemished business career.
(5) But you saw the spirit in the team tonight, we kept fighting to the end.” For Leicester it was another chastening evening and one that ended with Nigel Pearson embroiled in an ugly row, in which expletives were exchanged, with a fan.
(6) Cameron appeared chastened, felt betrayed by Berlin.
(7) Liverpool’s £32.5m signing played the full 90 minutes and it must have been a chastening experience for the Belgium international.
(8) There was little evidence that message got through to Pellegrini's players on an afternoon that was as chastening for Manchester City as it was glorious for Cardiff.
(9) After all, Wilson has experienced not just the thrill of mega-success (Kaiser Chiefs' debut album Employment sold more than 2m copies) but early years of struggle and rejection, and a chastening period of diminishing returns that has seen each album sell less than its predecessor.
(10) Fanning's bristling performance, complete with clipped English accent, is the most chastening of the film's surprises.
(11) This is a chastening championship and it will be relished all the more for it.
(12) After a chastening week that included defeats to Liverpool and Juventus, they produced a characteristic rejoinder.
(13) His position was precarious before the game and it must have been a chastening walk for the manager when he turned on his heel at the final whistle and headed for the tunnel.
(14) It's a signal about a commitment to fairness within a more chastened and fractious coalition.
(15) Grant insisted he had got his information from "a very highly placed source", but seemed suitably chastened.
(16) The figure is down from 21 in the previous year, as a chastened BBC tries to live within the means imposed by a six-year licence fee freeze.
(17) Chastened, he co-founded a talent agency and clawed his way back to LA, and success, until a deal soured and ruined him by 2007.
(18) In its third byelection humiliation in nine weeks, Labour saw its majority of more than 13,000 evaporate in a swing of more than 22% to the SNP, a reversal even more chastening than the loss of Crewe and Nantwich in May on a 17% swing.
(19) James's speech helped consolidate his position as heir apparent to his father's role, but since then his capital within News Corp has declined considerably and James and Rupert have been chastened by the fallout from the hacking scandal at their News of the World tabloid – now closed – which prompted outrage last year, damaging the value and reputation of News Corp and the Murdoch family.
(20) But, although some historians – including David Starkey, Antony Beevor and Niall Ferguson – backed the move , the DfE seems to have been chastened by the reaction, with Gove indicating last month to the Commons education select committee that the curriculum would be changed for its next draft.
Correction
Definition:
(n.) The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
(n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
(n.) That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
(n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
(n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(4) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(5) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(6) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(7) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(8) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(9) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(10) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
(11) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(12) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(13) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
(14) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(15) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(16) SD corrected high serum PTH and low serum testosterone (sT) levels, while pituitary hormones (LH, FSH, PRL) were elevated and did not change.
(17) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(18) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(19) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(20) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.