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incorrupt

adj

Etymology

From in- + corrupt.

  1. derived from corruptus
  2. inherited from corrupten
  3. prefixed as incorrupt — “in + corrupt”

Definitions

  1. not corrupt, void of moral corruption

    • The courts of British justice are impartial and incorrupt; they respect not the persons of men; the poor man's lamb is, in their estimation, as sacred as the monarch's crown; with inflexible integrity they adjudge to every man his own.
    • His, and NATO's, hopes of an incorrupt and credible government has been dealt a blow with the fraud-laden presidential election and Hamid Karzai's political alliances with warlords, war criminals and drug dealers.

  2. free from physical decay

    • His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in a silver case.

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