Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an incorruptible manner; so as not to admit of corruption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an incorruptible manner.
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- adverb In an
incorruptible manner.
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Examples
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He is here because he is what you all routinely fail to be: perfectly, incorruptibly, and passionately aware of what would befall the human race if our bat population were to ever be compromised.
Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010
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In the wake of a payola scandal, famed kid show host Rainbow Randolph (Williams) is fired, and ultimately replaced by the incorruptibly earnest Rhino, “Smoochy” (Edward Norton).
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Nevertheless, Garrels has engaged Serota and John Walsh, director of California's incorruptibly wealthy Getty Museum, to work on the problem of the late paintings.
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It is this female devotion, squatting faithfully at the prison gate, always eagerly balking the cunning of the examiner, and incorruptibly keeping the darkest secrets which make so many trials impenetrable mysteries.
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For if they shall be, and can now no longer he corrupted, they shall be better than before, because they shall abide incorruptibly.
The Confessions 1999
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For thus dost Thou, O Lord God, who lovest souls far more purely than we, and hast more incorruptibly pity on them, yet are wounded with no sorrowfulness.
The Confessions 1999
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God, for thou lovest souls far more purely than we do and art more incorruptibly compassionate, although thou art never wounded by any sorrow.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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So he made voyage after voyage, and gained only his wages and the reputation among his employers of an incorruptibly honest fellow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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He represents them as infallibly faithful and wise counselors, -- incorruptibly just and pure examples -- strong always to sanctify, even when they cannot save.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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But not even to Cleon have I entrusted the secret of the hiding-place, incorruptibly faithful as I believe him to be.
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