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uncoˈrrupt, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. = incorrupt a. 1.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. ix. 25 Thei [strive]..that thei take a coruptible crowne, we forsothe vncorupt. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 43 It is certayne þat bones shul noȝt be corrupte wiþ in a fourtniȝt if þai war vncorrupte afore þat tyme. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 75 Ther was bred kept sextene ȝere aftir his deth, on-corupte, on-mouled. a1513Fabyan Chron. v. cxxvii. 108 Thou shalt fynde our thre bodyes hoole & vncorrupte. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 264 If it [sc. ruby] coomme owt of the fyer vncorrupte, it be⁓commeth of the coloure of a burnynge cole. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xliii. 509 The leaues of the Bay tree doe preserue, keepe vncorrupt and make faster the fish that is fried. 1692Ray Disc. ii. iv. (1693) 127 The real Shells them⁓selves..remaining still entire and uncorrupt. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. viii. 82 The Seeds..are so hardy, as to lie sound and uncorrupt for many Years..in the Earth. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 254 So that several substances may be preserved in it uncorrupt for a considerable time.
2. = incorrupt a. 2.
c1440Alph. Tales 344 Sho sent hur one þat was a maydyn and vncorrupte. 1535Coverdale Wisd. vi. 19 The kepinge of y⊇ lawes is perfeccion & an vn corrupte life. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 269 Honest in dede and of vncorrupt maners. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvi. §8 That which in him made our nature vncorrupt. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 6 Such Artificers..carry in their mind an uncorrupt image of perfect beautie. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. vii. 304, I have..preserv'd my Hands clean, my Conscience uncorrupt. 1725Berkeley Proposal, etc., Wks. 1871 III. 215 The pure un⁓corrupt doctrine of the gospel. 1784Cowper Task ii. 400, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt. c1814Southey Ode War Amer. vi, Thy martyrs purchased at the stake Faith uncorrupt for thine inheritance. 1871Meredith H. Richmond liv, History, like the air we breathe, must be in motion to keep us uncorrupt.
b. Of language, texts, etc.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 95 Mair than 2 thowsand ȝeirs thay haue keipet the toung hail vncorrupte. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 1 An enimie to the vncorrupt writing of Historiographers. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 53 These Masoretick Doctors have kept it [sc. the Hebrew text] undepraved and uncorrupt. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. I. 377/1 That..their writings..should be preserved entire and uncorrupt.
3. = incorrupt a. 3.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. x. 42 A learned and uncorrupt Judge. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. v. (1674) 9 The eternal glory of the uncorrupt Venetian Justice. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 114 The greatest, the wisest, and the most uncorrupt minister I ever conversed with. 1774J. Reade in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 416 A respectable, unshaken, uncorrupt majority. 1841Borrow Zincali I. xii. i. 192 Pure and uncorrupt justice has never existed in Spain. |