incorruption

[ in-kuh-ruhp-shuhn ]
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nounArchaic.
  1. the quality or condition of being incorrupt.

Origin of incorruption

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Late Latin incorruptiōn- (stem of incorruptiō). See in-3, corruption

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How to use incorruption in a sentence

  • Love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption.

  • Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the corruptible has put on incorruption.

    Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

    Parables of the Christ-life | I. Lilias Trotter
  • No one in Ireland wears even the mask of incorruption; no one professes to do for sixpence what he can get a shilling for doing.

  • Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing?

    Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman Melville