Meanings
- Infused, permeated, streaked with (something).
Chinese government and society are shot through with corruption.
2012, “Banyan: Embarrassed meritocrats”, in The Economist1 more example
One of the great strengths of the mediaeval penitential system at its best (and stripped of the undoubted corruptions with which it was shot through) lay in its teaching about the use of the will for good in those in whom the Holy Spirit is at work.
2002, Gillian Rosemary Evans, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, page 138
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