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corruption - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of corrupting.
- noun The state of being corrupt.
- noun Decay; rot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of corrupting, or the state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of an organic body by decomposition accompanied by putrefaction; physical dissolution.
- noun Putrid matter; pus.
- noun Depravity; wickedness; perversion or extinction of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.
- noun Debasement or deterioration.
- noun Perversion; vitiation: as, a corruption of language.
- noun A corrupt or debased form of a word: as, “sparrow-grass” is a corruption of “asparagus.”
- noun A perverting, vitiating, or depraving influence; more specifically, bribery.
- noun In law, taint; impurity or defect (of heritable blood) in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting lands from an ancestor, and can neither retain those in his possession nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.
- noun Synonyms Putrefaction, putrescence.
- noun Pollution, defilement, contamination, vitiation, demoralization, foulness, baseness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- noun The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- noun 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.
- noun The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- noun (Law) taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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.
- noun The act of corrupting or making
putrid , or state of beingcorrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction;putrefaction ;deterioration . - noun The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- noun The
decomposition of biological matter. - noun computing The
destruction ofdata bymanipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or byimperfections instorage ortransmission media. - noun 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.
- noun linguistics A
debased ornonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting frommisunderstanding ,transcription error,mishearing , etc. - noun Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- noun lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- noun destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
- noun moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- noun inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
- noun in a state of progressive putrefaction
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From French corruption, from Latin corruptiō
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Examples
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It is true that original sin hath induced this corruption and incineration upon us; if we had not sinned in Adam, _mortality had not put on immortality_ [366] (as the apostle speaks), nor _corruption had not put on incorruption_, but we had had our transmigration from this to the other world without any mortality, any corruption at all.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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(Sadly, Jesse Jackson, Jr., though he appears to not have been involved in corruption, is now too tainted in the public memory as candidate #6 or whatever to have a viable chance at filling the seat.)
Matthew Yglesias » Darrel Thompson Sure Can Quit Burris 2009
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A report in Corriere della Sera on Wednesday said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano used the term "corruption" in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to explain the difficulties he faced in his position as secretary-general of the Vatican city-state.
www.startribune.com 2012
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(He said he was not using the term corruption in the sense of bribes, but in a broader sense, as when governments waste millions of dollars because their hands are tied by union rules.)
NYT > Home Page By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE 2010
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(He said he was not using the term corruption in the sense of bribes, but in a broader sense, as when governments waste millions of dollars because their hands are tied by union rules.)
NYT > Home Page By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE 2010
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But the priest is not of the order of the Aaronic priesthood; Christ is understood to be that. (the New Testament word "Priest" is but the linguistic corruption from the Greek word Presbyter, meaning "elder" - which is a direct derivation from the Hebrew Zaqen, also meaning "elder").
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"I don't use the term corruption lightly," McCain said.
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But the priest is not of the order of the Aaronic priesthood; Christ is understood to be that. (the New Testament word "Priest" is but the linguistic corruption from the Greek word Presbyter, meaning "elder" - which is a direct derivation from the Hebrew Zaqen, also meaning "elder").
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It posits that the trouble with NPR, which I call "corruption" in a general sense, is evidenced through the use of public choice theory.
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And this corruption is a bipartisan project — perhaps the only bipartisan project that functions inside the beltway.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $3.47 billion spent. Did you get a pony? 2010
Related Words
synonyms (225)
Words with the same meaning
- abandon
- abandonment
- abjection
- abomination
- abuse of terms
- acrostic
- adulteration
- alienation
- amphibologism
- amphiboly
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- atrocity
- bad
- bane
- barbarism
- bastardization
- bastardizing
- befouling
- befoulment
- biodegradability
- biodegradation
- blight
- brainwashing
- breakup
- bribery
- bribery and corruption
- bribing
- cacoepy
- cacology
- calembour
- carrion
- college of Laputa
- colloquialism
- contamination
- corrosion
- corruptedness
- corruptness
- counterindoctrination
- criminality
- crookedness
- crying evil
- cutting
- damage
- dandruff
- debasement
- debauchery
- decadence
- decadency
- decay
- decomposition
- defilement
- degeneracy
- degenerateness
- degeneration
- degradability
- degradation
- demoralization
- depravation
- depravedness
- depravity
- deprivation
- despoliation
- destroying
- destruction
- deterioration
- detriment
- deviousness
- dilapidation
- dilution
- dirtying
- dishonesty
- dishonor
- disintegration
- disorganization
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- doctoring
- envenoming
- equivocality
- equivoque
- erosion
- evasiveness
- evil
- excrement
- false coloring
- feloniousness
- festering
- filth
- fortifying
- foul matter
- fouling
- fraudulence
- fraudulency
- furfur
- gammacism
- gangrene
- graft
- grievance
- harm
- havoc
- hurt
- ill
- improbity
- impropriety
- impurity
- indirection
- indoctrination
- infection
- infelicity
- injury
- jeu de mots
- lacing
- lambdacism
- localism
- logogram
- logogriph
- malapropism
- mess
- metagram
- mildew
- mischief
- misconstruction
- misdirection
- misguidance
- misinformation
- misinstruction
- misinterpretation
- misknowledge
- misleading
- mispronunciation
- misrepresentation
- missaying
- misspeaking
- misteaching
- misusage
- misuse
- mold
- moral pollution
- moral turpitude
- muck
- mucus
- mystification
- mytacism
- obfuscation
- obscenity
- obscurantism
- obscuration
- ordure
- outrage
- oxidation
- oxidization
- palindrome
- paralambdacism
- pararhotacism
- paronomasia
- perversion
- play on words
- poison
- poisoning
- pollution
- profligacy
- prostitution
- pun
- punning
- pus
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putrid matter
- reindoctrination
- reprobacy
- resolution
- rhotacism
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruining
- rust
- scurf
- scuz
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- sinfulness
- slang
- slanting
- slime
- slipperiness
- smut
- snot
- soiling
- solecism
- sophistry
- sordes
- spiking
- spoilage
- spoiling
- spoonerism
- straining
- subornation
- subversion
- suppuration
- taboo word
- taint
- tainting
- the worst
- torturing
- toxin
- trickiness
- turpitude
- unconscientiousness
- underhandedness
- ungrammaticism
- unsavoriness
- unscrupulousness
- unstraightforwardness
- venom
- vexation
- vitiation
- vulgarism
- watering
- wickedness
- woe
- wordplay
- worsening
- wrong
sonofgroucho commented on the word corruption
"All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834 - 1902)
September 9, 2007