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corruptly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /kəˈrʌpt.li/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English corrupt Middle English -ly English -ly English corruptly From corrupt + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a corrupt manner.
   • More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: […] 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 566:
   • Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms. 1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed […] by C. & W. Galabin […] and sold by John White […] , pages 231–232:

Forms

Translations (5)

ca corruptament (in a corrupt manner) · es corruptamente (in a corrupt manner) · es corrompidamente (in a corrupt manner) · la corruptē (in a corrupt manner) · fi korruptoituneesti (in a corrupt manner)