corruption

Plural

corruptions

1. 1.The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

   • They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
   • It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.
   • But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

2. 2.The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

   • The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

3. 3.The decomposition of biological matter.

4. 4.The product of corruption; putrid matter.

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