Meanings
- uncountablethe state of being incorrupt
"Equally satisfactory is the evidence for the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament.
1884, L. W. Yaggy, Museum of Antiquity1 more example
To make their proof more precise Tertullian and Irenaeus therefore asserted that the Churches guaranteed the incorruptness of the apostolic inheritance, inasmuch as they could point to a chain of "elders," or, in other words, an "ordo episcoporum per successionem ab initio decurrens," which was a pledge that nothing false had been mixed up with it.
1901, Adolph Harnack, History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)Synonyms: incorruption
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe state of being incorrupt
More synonyms by meaning
nouncharacterized by integrity or probity
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