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Incorrupt   Listen
adjective
Incorrupt  adj.  
1.
Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.
2.
Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. "Your Christian principles... which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals."





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"Incorrupt" Quotes from Famous Books



... tyrannical, and corrupt Government; his to win, or to help to win, far nobler victories than were ever gained by Marlborough or Wellington: victories of which we reap the benefits now, in liberty of thought and speech, in an unfettered Press, in an incorrupt Parliament, in wiser laws, and in unshackled commerce. His manly voice never counselled aught but obedience; but it was never silent until it had assisted to ensure for his fellow-countrymen, that the laws he taught them to obey were just ...
— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards
... ii., c. 5) alone suffices to destroy all the ridiculous imputations against the honesty of Pericles which arose from the malice of contemporaries, and are yet perpetuated only by such writers as cannot weigh authorities. Thucydides does not only call him incorrupt, but "clearly or notoriously honest." [Chraematon te diaphanos adorotatos.] Plutarch and Isocrates ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power; beware that no faction or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of our people; beware that our Government be kept pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must now set our hand. For myself ...
— In Our First Year of the War - Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, - March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 • Woodrow Wilson


Words linked to "Incorrupt" :   corruption, incorruptness, uncorrupted, corruptness


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