corruption
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English [edit]
Corruption on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology [edit]
From French corruption, from Latin corruptiō
Noun [edit]
corruption (countable and uncountable; plural corruptions)
- 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.
- Henry Hallam The Constitutional History of England
- It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
- George Bancroft
- They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]:
- But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
- Henry Hallam The Constitutional History of England
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- 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.
- (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
- Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.
- The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation. — Francis Bacon.
Usage notes [edit]
- Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. — Abbott
Translations [edit]
act of corrupting
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Synonyms [edit]
- (act of corrupting or making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
- (state of being corrupt or putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
- (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot
- (act of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle):
- (state of being corrupted or debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
- (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening
- (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling
- (departure from what is pure or correct): deterioration, erosion
- (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text): bastardization
Derived terms [edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
French [edit]
Noun [edit]
corruption f (plural corruptions)
- corruption (act of corrupting)
- corruption (state of being corrupt)
- corruption (putrefaction)
