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/kərˈəptɪbəl/ Listen

adjective

Corruptible adj.

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." "Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold."

Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. "They systematically corrupt very corruptible race."

noun

Corruptible n. That which may decay and perish; the human body. (Archaic)

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Etymology of 'Corruptible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Corruptible" Quotes from Famous Books

... understood that the body of flesh which had been given them in mortality was necessary for their full salvation. Christ would bring to pass the resurrection, so that bodies would be restored to them, not corruptible as before, but perfected, immortal and glorious, a fit tabernacle for the immortal spirit with which to go on into the eternal mansions of ...

— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson

... waiting. The guards had wandered off to a little distance, and only one man was left. He was just below at the door of the mill. Brooke was glad to see that he was the ugliest of the lot, and the very one whom he had mentally decided upon as being the most corruptible. ...

— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille

... stirred in him." He burned with holy zeal to maintain the honor of the true and only God, whom now he saw dishonored on every side. He was filled with compassion for those Athenians who, notwithstanding their intellectual greatness, had changed the glory of God into an image made in the likeness of corruptible man, and who really worshipped the creature more than the Creator. The images intended to symbolize the invisible perfections of God were usurping the place of God, and receiving the worship due alone to him. We may presume the apostle was not ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... Enumeration of the sundry Ways of applying by Presents, Bribes, Management of People, Passions and Affections, in such a Manner as it shall appear that the Virtue of the best Man is by one Method or other corruptible; let us look out for some Expedient to turn those Passions and Affections on the side of Truth and Honour. When a Man has laid it down for a Position, that parting with his Integrity, in the minutest ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... forgetfulness of things. In such wise I gat knowledge of the gods Years hence, and heard high sayings of one most wise, Eurythemis my mother, who beheld With eyes alive and spake with lips of these As one on earth disfleshed and disallied From breath or blood corruptible; such gifts Time gave her, and an equal soul to these And equal face to all things, thus she said. But whatsoever intolerable or glad The swift hours weave and unweave, I go hence Full of mine own soul, perfect of myself, ...

— Atalanta in Calydon • Algernon Charles Swinburne

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