correption

From Latin correptio (“seizure”), from corripere (“to seize”).

correption (countable and uncountable, plural correptions)

1. (poetry) A shortening in pronunciation.
2. (obsolete) A chiding, scolding; telling off.

   Synonyms: berating, objurgation, rixation; see also Thesaurus:scolding

   • 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption, page 5:

     That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.

• “correption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• porrection, renotropic