Definition of corruption

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Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration..

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Corruptful :: Corruptful (a.) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
Corruptionist :: Corruptionist (n.) One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption..
Argal :: Argal (adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore..
Harlock :: Harlock (n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Filthiness :: Filthiness (n.) That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity..
Cathay :: Cathay (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.).
Incorruptly :: Incorruptly (adv.) Without corruption.
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption.
Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..
Corruptive :: Corruptive (a.) Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..
Debauchery :: Debauchery (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance..
Ods :: Ods (interj.) A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.
Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..
Symptomatic :: Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue..
Incorrupt :: Incorrupt (a.) Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Filth :: Filth (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Swanimote :: Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping.
Romansch :: Romansch (n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin..
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