Meaning

In a corruptible way..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a corruptible way.
2. (obsolete) With corruption, in a way that corrupts.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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Use corruptibly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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