Corruptibly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Corruptibly is an adverb meaning In a corruptible way.
Meaning
In a corruptible way.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) With corruption, in a way that corrupts.
Example Sentences
Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon, Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised, But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—
Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include corruptively, corruptingly, corruptedly, incorruptibly, venally, uncorruptedly.
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