discorrupt

present singular third person discorrupts · participle present discorrupting · participle past discorrupted · past discorrupted

1. To purify; to make less corrupt

   […]today he goes, no, until late he went merrily to discorrupt and tranquillize readers[…]

   2007, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica, page 21

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   I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

   1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, page 98

   It is more than possible to hear Brünnhilde in the immolation scene voicing a nationalist promise that if modernity will only discorrupt itself, the next Siegfried will not have to die in squalor.

   2004 October 2, Lawrence Kramer (musicologist), Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss, page 103