corruptibly

English

Etymology

From corruptible +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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.