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Corruption Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Corruption? [n] destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [n] moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity" [n] lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [n] decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) [n] in a state of progressive putrefaction Synonyms \| Synonyms for Corruption: corruptness \| degeneracy \| depravity \| putrescence \| putridness \| rottenness \| subversion Related Terms \| Find terms related to Corruption: abandon \| abandonment \| abjection \| abomination \| abuse of terms \| acrostic \| adulteration \| alienation \| amphibologism \| amphiboly \| anagram \| antiphrasis \| atrocity \| bad \| bane \| barbarism \| bastardizing \| befouling \| befoulment \| biodegradability \| biodegradation \| blight \| brainwashing \| breakup \| bribery \| bribery and corruption \| bribing \| cacoepy \| cacology \| calembour \| carrion \| college of Laputa \| colloquialism \| contamination \| corrosion \| corruptedness \| corruptness \| counterindoctrination \| criminality \| crookedness \| crying evil \| cutting \| damage \| dandruff \| debasement \| decadence \| decadency \| decay \| decomposition \| defilement \| degeneracy \| degenerateness \| degeneration \| degradability \| degradation \| demoralization \| depravation \| depravedness \| depravity \| despoliation \| destruction \| detriment \| deviousness \| dilapidation \| dilution \| dishonesty \| dishonor \| disintegration \| disorganization \| dissoluteness \| dissolution \| doctoring \| envenoming \| equivocality \| equivoque \| evasiveness \| evil \| excrement \| false coloring \| feloniousness \| festering \| filth \| fortifying \| foul matter \| fouling \| fraudulence \| fraudulency \| furfur \| gammacism \| gangrene \| graft \| grievance \| harm \| havoc \| hurt \| ill \| improbity \| impropriety \| indirection \| indoctrination \| infection \| infelicity \| injury \| jeu de mots \| lacing \| lambdacism \| localism \| logogram \| logogriph \| malapropism \| mess \| metagram \| mildew \| mischief \| misconstruction \| misdirection \| misguidance \| misinformation \| misinstruction \| misinterpretation \| misknowledge \| misleading \| mispronunciation \| misrepresentation \| missaying \| misspeaking \| misteaching \| misusage \| misuse \| mold \| moral pollution \| moral turpitude \| muck \| mucus \| mystification \| mytacism \| obfuscation \| obscenity \| obscurantism \| obscuration \| ordure \| outrage \| oxidation \| oxidization \| palindrome \| paralambdacism \| pararhotacism \| paronomasia \| perversion \| play on words \| poison \| poisoning \| pollution \| profligacy \| prostitution \| pun \| punning \| pus \| putrid matter \| reindoctrination \| reprobacy \| resolution \| rhotacism \| rot \| rottenness \| rust \| scurf \| scuz \| shadiness \| shiftiness \| slang \| slanting \| slime \| slipperiness \| smut \| snot \| solecism \| sophistry \| sordes \| spiking \| spoilage \| spoonerism \| straining \| subornation \| subversion \| suppuration \| taboo word \| the worst \| torturing \| toxin \| trickiness \| turpitude \| unconscientiousness \| underhandedness \| ungrammaticism \| unsavoriness \| unscrupulousness \| unstraightforwardness \| venom \| vexation \| vitiation \| vulgarism \| watering \| woe \| wordplay \| wrong See Also \| debasement \| decay \| degradation \| dishonesty \| immorality \| infection \| jobbery \| putrefaction \| rot \| venality Corruption In Webster's Dictionary \Cor*rup"tion\ (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L. corruptio.] 1. 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 inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to ``generation''. --Bacon. 2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. 3. 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. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. --Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. --Bancroft. Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. --Abbott. 4. 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. {Corruption of blood} (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. --Blackstone. Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See {Depravity}.

Corruption Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Corruption?

[n] destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
[n] moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
[n] lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
[n] decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
[n] in a state of progressive putrefaction

Corruption In Webster's Dictionary

\Cor*rup"tion\ (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L.
corruptio.]
1. 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 inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a
         subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is
         a reciprocal to ``generation''.       --Bacon.

2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

3. 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.

         It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions
         of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation
         against them.                         --Hallam.

         They abstained from some of the worst methods of
         corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
                                               --Bancroft.

Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc.,
      signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of
      pecuniary considerations. --Abbott.

4. 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.

{Corruption of blood} (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in
   consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony,
   by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate
   or from transmitting it to others.

         Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of
         Parliament.                           --Blackstone.

Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination;
     deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint.
     See {Depravity}.

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