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
Other Word Forms
- incorruption noun
- incorruptly adverb
- incorruptness noun
Etymology
Origin of incorrupt
1300–50; Middle English < Latin incorruptus unspoiled. See in- 3 + corrupt
Example Sentences
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The wine, the letter says, must be “natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances.”
From Washington Post
The wine, meanwhile, must be "natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances."
From Time
The nation reflected the man: efficient, unsentimental, incorrupt, inventive, forward-looking and pragmatic.
From New York Times
“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
It must be so regarded, precisely in so far as the primacy has been instituted for the special end of preserving the faith incorrupt.
From Project Gutenberg
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