Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who …” “Who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though he never could appreciate it.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
.”On the whole Harry thought it went rather well; his Levitation Charm was certainly much better than Malfoy’s had been, though he wished he had not mixed up the incantations for Color-Change and Growth Charms, so that the rat he was supposed to be turning orange swelled shockingly and was the size of a badger before Harry could rectify his mistake.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Again, this is percept contamination that could in the course of time rectify itself as---” “Murky,” Fred said.
Dick, Philip K.
A Scanner Darkly
"Then call him and ask him to rectify it," Katz said.
Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
I shall rectify that error at once.” Ser Loras pushed back a brown curl that had fallen across his forehead.
George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
That all things have been and all things always will be bad, and that no power has ever been found in so many gods to rectify these things, but the world has been condemned to be found in never ceasing evil?
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Mar Lord Ramsay’s wedding with a misstep, and Lord Ramsay might rectify such clumsiness by flaying the offending foot.
Martin, George, R. R.
A Dance With Dragons
The chariot by which he represents the Church is widowed of Christ, whose figure is so important on the window of Brou; the chariot is empty, and Dante neither discovered this deficiency, nor was concerned to rectify it; for he was less anxious to celebrate Christ and his doctrine, for their own sake, than as connected with the organization and administration of the Church.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
I have not begotten nor given birth to my lady, though I behold her as she needs must be, a lady who contains in herself all the qualities to make her famous throughout the world, beautiful without blemish, dignified without haughtiness, tender and yet modest, gracious from courtesy and courteous from good breeding, and lastly, of exalted lineage, because beauty shines forth and excels with a higher degree of perfection upon good blood than in the fair of lowly birth.” “That is true,” said the duke; “but Señor Don Quixote will give me leave to say what I am constrained to say by the story of his exploits that I have read, from which it is to be inferred that, granting there is a Dulcinea in El Toboso, or out of it, and that she is in the highest degree beautiful as you have described her to us, as regards the loftiness of her lineage she is not on a par with the Orianas, Alastrajareas, Madasimas, or others of that sort, with whom, as you well know, the histories abound.” “To that I may reply,” said Don Quixote, “that Dulcinea is the daughter of her own works,706 and that virtues rectify blood, and that lowly virtue is more to be regarded and esteemed than exalted vice.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote