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Incorrupt adj.

Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. "Your Christian principles... which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals."

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Etymology of 'Incorrupt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorrupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... offered, because it wards off the corruption of putrefaction: for sacrifices offered to God should be incorrupt. Moreover, salt signifies the discretion of wisdom, or again, mortification ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... but rather proposed each and every appearance as a touchstone on which the quality of personality should be unceasingly tried. By the constant application of a high standard to life, it seemed to implant an incorrupt seed of manliness, and to create in its disciples that saner mood which holds in equal aversion a Heliogabalus and a Simeon Stylites. So persuaded, I could join with the fervour of a neophyte in the Stoic's ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... body. In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities, wherein the face is a confused blur of features, but composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that, but they must turn the whole head. The manners of that period are plain and fierce. The reverence exhibited ...

— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... often the bad taste to assume. The completion of the Thames Embankment and of the purification of our river has already made water travelling more fashionable in London. Soon, perhaps, the Representative of some powerful Trades-union or incorrupt Borough, will see by the Westminster Clock that it is time to go down to the "House," and will order his double-screw steamer round to the water steps near his terrace door; and no coachman in those days need apply for a place ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

Words linked to "Incorrupt" : unspoiled, uncorrupted, incorruptible, corruption, moral, incorruptness, antiseptic