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Definition of Incorruptible
1. Adjective. Incapable of being morally corrupted. "Incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society"
Definition of Incorruptible
1. a. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
2. n. One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
Definition of Incorruptible
1. Adjective. Not possible to corrupt; not subject to corruption. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incorruptible
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incorruptible
Literary usage of Incorruptible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... who taught, not that Christ was a phantom, but that he was clothed with an
impassible and incorruptible body. Such, indeed, in the more orthodox system, ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"I suppose, said Socrates, that God, and the yery species, essence or idea, of
life will be granted by all to be incorruptible. ..."
3. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1849)
"... by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you. ..."
4. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"Modern science recognizes the incorruptible integrity of the mind: that is to
say, it recognizes the fact that the mind itself, in its own proper nature and ..."
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