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incorruptible

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,685 of 15,258neutral

Incorruptible means impossible to bribe or to corrupt. An incorruptible judge, incorruptible and severe, thought incorruptible.

It is high praise and a heavy claim, since it says no price exists. Robespierre was called the Incorruptible, which shows what the reputation can be worth and what it can cost. In older religious use it means not subject to decay. Note corrupt, from the Latin for broken.

Definitions of incorruptible

  1. 1adjectiveincorruptibleImpossible to bribe or to corrupt.C1

    “The new police chief was incorruptible, and the gangsters soon learned they couldn't buy him.”

incorruptible is a quality of integrity.

Where it comes from

Latin incorruptibilis is in- plus corrumpere, to break or spoil — con plus rumpere. Rupture and erupt come from the same breaking.

  1. Latin

    incorruptibilis

  2. Middle French

    incorruptible

  3. English, today

    incorruptible

Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. by surface analysis, in- + corruptible.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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incorruptible in the wild

  • Rumor has it that some of egg ghosts' personalities are not incorruptible as time goes by.

    Egg ghost

  • Classic Chinese sources stated he was modest and incorruptible, and adhered strictly to the teachings of Confucius despite living in abject poverty.

    Yuan Xian

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.