CORRUPTION

corruption

(noun) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); “he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering”

corruption, subversion

(noun) destroying someone’s (or some group’s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; “corruption of a minor”; “the big city’s subversion of rural innocence”

corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction

(noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; “the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”; “moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration”; “its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity”; “Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction”

corruptness, corruption

(noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

corruption

(noun) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption

(noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)

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

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 product of corruption; putrid matter.

The decomposition of biological matter.

The seeking of bribes.

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

(linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

Synonyms

• (economics): rent-seeking

• (act of corrupting or making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting

• (state of being corrupt or putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting

• (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot

• (act of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle): depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery

• (state of being corrupted or debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness

• (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening

• (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling

• (departure from what is pure or correct): deterioration, erosion

• (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text): bastardization

Source: Wiktionary

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Cor*rup"tion (kr-rp"shn), n. Etym: [F. corruption, L. corruptio.]

1. 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". Bacon.

2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott.

4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

Syn.

– Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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