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Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..

Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..

Prithee :: Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I..

Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..

Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..

Spoil :: Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.

Filth :: Filth (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Malversation :: Malversation (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office..

Emendation :: Emendation (n.) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations..

Cacotechny :: Cacotechny (n.) A corruption or corrupt state of art.

Argal :: Argal (adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore..

Swanimote :: Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping.

Corruption :: Corruption (n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language..

Otter :: Otter (n.) A corruption of Annotto.

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.).

Romansch :: Romansch (n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin..

Jobbery :: "Jobbery (n.) Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery..

Incorruptibility :: Incorruptibility (n.) The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption.

Weigh :: Weigh (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh..

Curtelasse :: Curtelasse () A corruption of Cutlass.

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