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adjective

Corrupt adj.

1.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. "Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them."

2.

Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. "At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you."

3.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

verb

Corrupt v. t. (past & past part. corrupted; pres. part. corrupting)

1.

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

2.

To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."

3.

To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. "Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt."

4.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. "He that makes an ill use of it (language), though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge,... yet he stops the pines."

5.

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt."

Corrupt v. i.

1.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

2.

To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.

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Etymology of 'Corrupt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Corrupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... knowledge and wisdom on literary subjects. There is an immense human ardor, power, and pathos in Stoddard; better than any other American poet does he realize the conception of his great English brother—the love of love, the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn. The world has proved impotent to corrupt his heroic simplicity; he loved fame much, but truth more. He is a boy in his heart still, and he has sung songs which touch whatever is sweetest, tenderest, and manliest ...

— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

... our belief that there is no more "necessity" in the leanings of race with respect to nations, than there is in the corrupt instincts of our fallen nature with respect to individuals. The teachings of faith have clearly decided this in the latter case, and the consequence of this authoritative decision carries with it the ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... accepted a little trifle, a small token of esteem, for your brother-in-law. Oh, let us come out and be frank with each other: I know you, Mr. Trollop. I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles—never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. Let us be frank. Wear this comely disguise of virtue before the public—it will count there; but here it is ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... of the Tiber, Pontius was still the sculptor's friend. Balbilla and her husband gave their corrupt fellow-citizens the example of a worthy, faithful marriage on the old Roman pattern. The poetess's bust had been completed by Pollux in Alexandria, and with all its tresses and little curls, it ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... display his reign. The devil is the great spirit of wickedness, whose attributes comprehend all evil, dark, fearful realities, and who entices mankind to sin. The wickedness, gloom, and misery of corrupt souls reveal his ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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