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incorruptible Definition

in·cor·rupt·ible (-ruptə bəl)

adjective

  1. that cannot be corrupted, esp. morally
  2. not liable to physical decay

Etymology: ME incorruptyble < LL (Ec) incorruptibilis

incorruptible Related Forms
in′·cor·rupt′·ibil·ity noun in′·cor·rupt·ibly adverb
incorruptible Synonyms

incorruptible

modif.

honest, honorable, scrupulous, ethical; see moral 1, reliable 1, upright 2.

incorruptible Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • seed: You have an incorruptible seed, Peter says, a new life, a new nature, a new creation.
  • body: Heaven had begun to join to earth and Jesus was the first of the righteous to rise in an incorruptible body.
  • crown: Hence Paul, that he might be approved of the Judge and win the incorruptible crown, enslaved his body ( I Cor.
  • life: The incorruptible life of the Son is transmitted by Divine means to the sinner whose heart is capable of faith in God.
  • inheritor: As he put it himself: " Only the Irish working class remain the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for Irish freedom.
  • flesh: The true substance of God and man has to be this hypothetical incorruptible flesh.

Used with adjective complement

  • raise: For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
incorruptible Quotes

The seagreen Incorruptible.

—Carlyle,Thomas