Incorruptibility

Quick meaning: Incorruptibility is a noun meaning The condition of being incorruptible; honesty.

Meaning

The condition of being incorruptible; honesty.

More Meanings

1. The condition of never decaying or decomposing (especially, as ascribed to the bodies of holy people in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity).

Example Sentences

The Being of a God, and Incorruptibility of the Soul, those great Articles of Religion, are they not proved with the clearest and most immediate Evidence?

Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, every one has to pose as a paragon of purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues—and what is the result? You all go over like ninepins—one after the other.

In short—which is the strongest proof that can be given of the excellence of her heart, and the incorruptibility of her honour, she, at eighteen, was as spotless a character at Little Hockley, as the most innocent inhabitant of her age and sex could be at Castlewick.

The PEACOCK, in ancient times, was possessed of a mystic character. The fabled incorruptibility of its flesh led to its typifying the Resurrection; and from this incorruptibility, doubtless, originated the first idea of swearing “by the Peacock,” an oath that was to be inviolably kept.

Antonyms for incorruptibility

Common opposites include corruptibility.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incorruptibleness, incorruptness, uncorruptness, incorruption, uncorruptedness, uncorruption.

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