NOUN
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- the state of being corrupt
How To Use corruptness In A Sentence
- Basically, according to him, the corruptness is inside a man already.
- We are so inured to the laxness and corruptness, that we defend the bullies and liars.
- He saw with equal clearness, and painted with equal vividness, the truth and incorruptness, the purity and goodness, the love and pity which exist side by side with the abounding evil. Criticisms and Interpretations. IV. By William Samuel Lilly
- Had he changed his mind about the administration's alleged corruptness?
- Because of its lightness, endurance to corruptness, high strength and the convenience in construction, CFRP is used widely in the area of reinforce.
- We are so inured to the laxness and corruptness, that we defend the bullies and liars.
- Chalcedon so long as they earnestly endeavoured to teach the heathen the rudiments of the faith and to love the Lord in incorruptness. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
- To make their proof more precise Tertullian and Irenæus therefore asserted that the Churches guaranteed the incorruptness of the apostolic inheritance, inasmuch as they could point to a chain of "elders," or, in other words, an "ordo episcoporum per successionem ab initio decurrens," which was a pledge that nothing false had been mixed up with it. [ History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
- The multiplication of copies, both of the original and of translations into a variety of languages, which were read, not only in private, but publicly in the religious assemblies of the early Christians; the reverence of the Christians for these writings; the variety of sects and heresies which soon arose in the Christian Church, each of whom appealed to the Scriptures for the truth of their doctrines, rendered any material alteration in the sacred books utterly impossible; while the silence of their acutest enemies, who would most assuredly have charged them with the attempt if it had been made, and the agreement of all the manuscripts and versions extant, are positive proofs of the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament; which are further attested by the agreement with it of all the quotations which occur in the writings of the Christians from the earliest age to the present time. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- Equally satisfactory is the evidence for the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life