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CORRUPTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corruptible mean? 

CORRUPTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective CORRUPTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being corruptedplay

  Familiarity information: CORRUPTIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORRUPTIBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being corrupted

Synonyms:

bribable; corruptible; dishonest; purchasable; venal

Context example:

a venal police officer

Similar:

corrupt (lacking in integrity)

Derivation:

corrupt (make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence)

corrupt (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)

corruptibility (the capability of being corrupted)


 Context examples 


We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain,—the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man—perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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