incorruptive

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English

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Etymology

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Latin incorruptivus.

Adjective

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incorruptive (comparative more incorruptive, superlative most incorruptive)

  1. (archaic) incorruptible; not liable to decay
    • 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination:
      To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for incorruptive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)