The phrase "a corrective of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves to correct or amend a previous statement, action, or belief.
Example: "The new policy is intended as a corrective of the previous guidelines that were found to be ineffective."
Alternatives: "a remedy for" or "a fix for".
The stint at Joe's Pub was a corrective of the most American kind: a learning experience, a way, to quote an expression that particularly tickles Elmaleh, of challenging himself.
Although he demonstrated less critical method and limited theological comprehension, Sozomen's unique inclusion of certain sources makes his work valuable in itself and as a corrective of Socrates' text.
This fall, Lowry will publish "Son," the final novel in what's now being called the Giver Quartet, and together the four books make a quiet masterpiece — a corrective of sorts to "The Hunger Games" and other movie-adaptation-ready Y.A. series.
In the novels of Thomas Hardy there is a pessimism that may be taken as a corrective of bourgeois Panglossianism the philosophy that everything happens for the best, satirized in Voltaire's Candide (1759)—since the universe is presented as almost impossibly malevolent.
He agrees that questions of economics and equity are essential in any discussion of gap years, but he also believes there is a breakdown in how our education system prepares most high school students for adulthood — and that gap-year programs offer clues toward a corrective of this breakdown.
I think I'd have found it very difficult to start again, from scratch". A dark tale of art theft, sexual obsession, torture and violence, Trance was deliberately conceived as a corrective of sorts to the ceremony's inspirational, optimistic exuberance.
There's much truth in this, and McKee's paean to the undervalued art of screenwriting is a corrective to years of auteurist ideology.
Mr. Obama's plan is a corrective to years of unjustifiable tax giveaways.
Still, Mr. Gergiev's vividly colorful and strongly characterized performance seemed a corrective to notions of objectivity.
The report was presented as a corrective to a web of pernicious lies surrounding the attack.
Whatever form it takes, "sanctuary" offers a corrective to the dehumanization of so-called "illegal aliens".
