English Explanatory Dictionary

house of correction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
  2. A prison.

Word forms

house of correction houses of correction

Related words

approved school poorhouse prison reformatory
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