Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not susceptible of corruption or decay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Not susceptible to
corruption ordecay ;incorruptible .
Etymologies
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corrupt + -less
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Examples
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In Rome's corruptless times might have confest. dressed up in a vigorous highly ornamented style, and the crime of suicide depicted in the most glowing language of poetry, and deplored and deprecated in terms of dissuasion, forcible as those of Bourdaloue, and eloquent as those of Massillon, delivered from the mouth of a sooty
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Funeral and bridal both, and all around The borders with corruptless myrrh are crown'd.
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