corruptibly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In a corruptible way.

   • Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon, Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised, But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—
   • Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.
2. 2

   With corruption, in a way that corrupts.

   • Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
   • It is too late: the life of all his blood / Is touch’d corruptibly and his pure brain, / Which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house, / Doth by the idle comments that it makes / Foretell the ending of mortality.

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