incoˈrruptness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being incorrupt, in its various senses.
| 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 107 Integrity and Incorruptness of Manners. 1771 Antiq. Sarisb. 2 The incorruptness and general use of the old British [tongue], before the coming of the Romans and Saxons. 1775 De Lolme Eng. Const. ii. vi. (1784) 245 They have, in the discharge of their function, shown an incorruptness. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xlvii. 62 With the faults of pride, inflexibility, and dilatoriness, he also had incorruptness. 1881 Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. II. App. 46 A suspicion as to the incorruptness of the existing MSS. |