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corruption

noun
/kəˈɹʌpʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from French corruption, from Latin corruptiō, equivalent to corrupt + -ion.

  1. derived from corruptiō
  2. borrowed from corruption

Definitions

  1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle

    The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

    • It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.
    • They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
    • But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

  2. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid

    The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

    • The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

  3. The product of corruption

    The product of corruption; putrid matter.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The decomposition of biological matter.

    2. Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including…

      Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.

    3. The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or…

      The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

    4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse

      The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

      • a corruption of style
      • corruption of innocence

    5. A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from…

      A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)

      • The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of the compass.
      • Even though the longer ending of Mark is itself secondary, its wording was no more immune to corruption than any other portion of the New Testament text (as scribes would normally not know they were corrupting a corruption).

    6. Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure

      Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

      • They admitted that there were corruptions in the Church of Scotland, but denied that these corruptions were such as to render a separation from her necessary.

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Derived

anti-corruption, anticorruption, corruptioneer, corruptionist, corruptionless, corruption of blood, countercorruption, incorruption, noncorruption, recorruption, uncorruption

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at corruption. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at corruption. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at corruption

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA