Oct 14, 2019· The action or process of rectifying. the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies, originally published in parts in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, reprinted in 1863, Thomas De Quincey, Judas Iscariot and Other Writings, page 274, […] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of ...