† incoˈrrupted, a. Obs.
[in-3.]
Not corrupted.
1. Not decayed or putrefied; = incorrupt 1.
| 1593 Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 86 Not onely his bodie was hole and incorrupted, but the vestments wherin his bodie laie..freshe, saife and not consumed. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxv. 172 A speciall proprietie in the flesh of Peacocks rost or boiled, to preserve a long time incorrupted, hath been the assertion of many. |
2. Free from corruption, debasement, or perversion; = incorrupt 2.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 47 That soile, where all good things did grow,..As incorrupted Nature did them sow. 1638 Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. iii. §27. 141 How shall I be assured, that the Scriptures are incorrupted in these places? 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. 274 The incorrupted Christianity being once made the Religion of the Empire. |
3. Uncorrupted in morals, virtue, chastity, devotion to duty, etc.; = incorrupt. 3.
| 1529 More Dyaloge 123 b/2 They shall..commende y⊇ thyngys whych now theyr incorrupted conscyence abhorreth. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 299 [It becomes] Priests to be sober and sad..a Iudge to be incorrupted. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 259 Upon this condition, that they should sacrifice an incorrupted virgin. 1654 tr. Martini's Conq. China 156 One onely City..which was governed by an incorrupted Tartar, refused to submit. 1768 Boswell Corsica (ed. 2) 363, I found in him the incorrupted virtues of the brave islander. |
Hence † incoˈrruptedness. rare—1.
| 1653 Vaughan Life T. Jackson in J.'s Wks. (1844) I. p. xl, A sure and honourable argument of the incorruptedness of that place. |