corruptibly

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Etymology

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From corruptible +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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corruptibly (not comparable)

  1. In a corruptible way.
    • 1680, George Sikes, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes[1], London, Chapter 5, Verse 9:
      They forth-with forfeited and lost the paradisical-state of their corruptibly perfect natural, in Subjection to that Light that shew’d and offer’d them God’s incorruptibly perfect spiritual creature-Life, State, and Meats, which was their first habitation or state of Innocency.
    • 1870, Charles Kent, “Philippo: The Dream-Haunted”, in Poems[2], London: Charlton Tucker, page 87:
      Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon,
      Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised,
      But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—
    • 1974, Thomas Griffith, chapter 14, in How True: A Skeptic’s Guide to Believing the News[3], Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 172:
      Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.
  2. (obsolete) With corruption, in a way that corrupts.
    • 1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. [], London: [] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. [] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: [] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:
      Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
    • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
      It is too late: the life of all his blood / Is touch’d corruptibly and his pure brain, / Which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house, / Doth by the idle comments that it makes / Foretell the ending of mortality.