incorrupt
Americanadjective
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not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
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not to be corrupted; incorruptible.
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not vitiated by errors or alterations.
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Obsolete. free from decomposition or putrefaction.
adjective
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free from corruption; pure
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free from decay; fresh or untainted
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(of a manuscript, text, etc) relatively free from error or alteration
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Etymology
Origin of incorrupt
1300–50; Middle English < Latin incorruptus unspoiled. See in- 3 + corrupt
Example Sentences
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His artistic existence, incorrupt and otherwise, soothes the soul.
From Salon ● May 29, 2012
“Only the morally courageous are worthy of speaking to their fellow men for two hours in the dark,” Frank Capra once wrote, “and only the artistically incorrupt will earn and keep the people’s trust.”
From Salon ● May 29, 2012
Author Taft thinks so, although he admits that an incorrupt government steps on many toes, recalls a prominent manufacturer who has left the Charter group because he could not get a $2 parking ticket "fixed."
From Time Magazine Archive
The offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged.
From Time Magazine Archive
They pointed to communities of whose apostolic origin there could be no doubt, and thought it could not reasonably be denied that those Churches must have preserved apostolic Christianity in a pure and incorrupt form.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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