Definition of corruption

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Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery..

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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.).
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..
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..
Otter :: Otter (n.) A corruption of Annotto.
Incorruptness :: Incorruptness (n.) Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.
Corruption :: 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..
Corruptive :: Corruptive (a.) Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
Debauchery :: Debauchery (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance..
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..
Godild :: Godild () A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless..
Romansch :: Romansch (n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin..
Swanimote :: Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping.
Jobbery :: "Jobbery (n.) Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery..
Corruptful :: Corruptful (a.) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
Prithee :: Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I..
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.
Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
Malversation :: Malversation (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office..
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