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We calculated the inﬂuence of the limb-darkened ﬁnite disk correction factor in the theory of radiation-driven winds from massive stars. We solved the 1-D m-CAK hydrodynamical equation of rotating radiation-driven winds for all three known solutions, i.e., fast, Ω-slow and δ-slow. We found that for the fast solution, the mass loss rate is increased by a factor ∼ 10%, while the terminal velocity is reduced about 10%, when compared with the solution using a ﬁnite disk correction factor from a uniformly bright star. For the other two slow solutions the changes are almost negligible. Although, we found that the limb darkening has no eﬀects on the wind momentum luminosity relationship, it would aﬀect the calculation of synthetic line proﬁles and the derivation of accurate wind parameters.