corruptibly

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adverb

In a corruptible way.

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Meanings

adverbcorruptibly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a corruptible way.

    Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon, Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised, But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—

    1870, Charles Kent, “Philippo: The Dream-Haunted”, in Poems, London: Charlton Tucker, page 87
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    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.

    1680, George Sikes, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes, London, Chapter 5, Verse 9

    Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.

    1974, Thomas Griffith, chapter 14, in How True: A Skeptic’s Guide to Believing the News, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 172
  2. not comparableobsoleteWith corruption, in a way that corrupts.

    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.

    1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50
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    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.

    c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]

Origin

From corruptible + -ly.

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