incorrupt en · ADJ
Etymology
From in- + corrupt.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) not corrupt, void of moral corruption
The courts of British justice are impartial and incorrupt; they respect not the persons of men; the poor man's lamb is, in their estimation, as sacred as the monarch's crown; with inflexible integrity they adjudge to every man his own.
1876, William Wordsworth, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth:He slighted the plaudits of their theatre, he abhorred their dances and their horse-races, he was abstinent even at a festival, and incorrupt himself, perpetually admonished the dissipated citizens of their impious abandonment of the laws of their country.
1850, Isaac Disraeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius:His, and NATO's, hopes of an incorrupt and credible government has been dealt a blow with the fraud-laden presidential election and Hamid Karzai's political alliances with warlords, war criminals and drug dealers.
2009 September 6, Haroon Siddiqui, “Toronto terror conviction and the war on terror in Afghanistan”, in Toronto Star:
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(not-comparable) free from physical decay
His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in a silver case.
1895, Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints: