How To Use Incorrupt In A Sentence

His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Prima_ are neither ingenerable nor incorruptible Substances; since by his _Alkahest_ some of them may be produc'd of Bodies that were before of another Denomination; and by the same powerfull _Menstruum_ all of them may be reduc'd into insipid Water. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
Gold has been prized because it is the most inert metal, changeless and incorruptible.
There are other quirky problems surrounding the phenomenon of incorrupt bodies of saints.
The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.

Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
By nature they are eternal and incorruptible, but Eriugena also thinks of individual created things as located spatially and temporally.
I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
He is generally counted as incorruptible good official of the law.
Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption, who continue constant in their love to him, so as not to be corrupted out of it by any baits or seductions whatsoever, and whose love to him is uncorrupted by any opposite lust, or the love of any thing displeasing to him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society
She knew that it would have been a stone shock to Winnie, because Winnie was incorruptible herself. BAD MEDICINE
The idealism and incorruptibility of "Ransom Stoddard" is embedded in Stewart's iconic role as the idealistic young senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and other movies like You Can't Take It with You, from his pre-World-War-II career, particularly his Frank Capra movies, yet also inflected with the toughness and desperation he brought to his own post-war Westerns such as The Naked Spur. Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance?
The very word "incorruptible" implies this attitude, as if the natural processes were a corruption, dirtying what is holy; whereas I find, on looking around me, that the intricacy of the decomposition process is incredible, amazing - miraculous, if you will - whether they be the product of some Creator or the result of some intricate evolutionary processes. Archive 2007-08-01
He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
The still incorrupt hand was enshrined, some 400 years later, when a little Catholic Church was re-established in Ely.
Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
They remind me of that crown incorruptible, which is reserved in heaven for all who love the Lord and have submitted to His will upon the earth. Blumenkörbchen. English
That such abstract ideas, with names to them, as we have been speaking of are essences, may further appear by what we are told concerning essences, viz. that they are all ingenerable and incorruptible. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes.
We need someone who can think carefully about changing the economic policy course of the country, who is as economist James K. Galbraith just shared with me "incorruptible", and who can run a big government operation, and instill national and global confidence in his or her leadership. Steve Clemons: Who Will Succeed Tim Geithner as Next Treasury Secretary?
Speaking of the doctrine that was communicated to the initiates, Philo Judaeus says that "it is an incorruptible treasure, not like gold or silver, but more precious than everything beside; for it is the knowledge of the Great Cause, and of nature, and of that which is born of both. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
The only way to render this perishing creature solid and incorruptible is for him to entertain and receive the word of God; for this remains everlasting truth, and, if received, will preserve him to everlasting life, and abide with him for ever. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
It is incorruptible, in which respect it is like its Maker, who is called the incorruptible God, Rom. i. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Relatively incorrupt, they brought an end to the capricious violence of the warlords who ruled in the post-Soviet vacuum.
The schools, proceeding from the illusions of sense, had carried this distinction very far; and had established the latter substances to be ingenerable, incorruptible, unalterable, impassable; and had assigned all the opposite qualities to the former. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Had the Fall not occurred, says Augustine, “[Adam] would not have been divested of his body, but would have been clothed upon with immortality and incorruption, that ‘mortality might have been swallowed up of life;’ that is, that he might have passed from the natural body into the spiritual body.” Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
And tradition, in a country so free of intermixture with foreigners, and among a people so strongly attached to the memory of their ancestors, has preserved many of them in a great measure incorrupted to this day. Fragments of Ancient Poetry
He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
But by "pureness" here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
His protagonist-heroes, especially the Chief Justice in The Lawyer and the Libertine and the film director in Appointment at Amalfi, show a scrupulous and incorruptible concern for truth and justice.
He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
I also want to tell you that I pictured the miracle of the incorrupted body of a Romanian Orthodox saint John Jacob from Hozeve in august 2009 in a pilgrimage to the Orthodox Holy Places in Israel. WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report
He was too straight, too obviously incorruptible; he'd never go along with it. A WORM OF DOUBT
The Chinese Communist Party has fine tradition in opposing corruptness and encouraging incorruptness .
Gladly does He hunger that you may be fed; naked does He go that He may provide for you the materials for a garment of incorruption, yet not even so do you give up any of your own. Jesus Christ
But in the second meaning of the word "corruption," we confess that our Lord's body is incorruptible, that is, indestructible, for such is the tradition of the inspired Fathers. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
There was a trip to France to see something called the incorrupt saint, and possibly a position. CNN Transcript May 21, 2001
To his supporters, Rawlings remains an incorruptible savior and pragmatist who kept the country from plunging into chaos.
He was too straight, too obviously incorruptible; he'd never go along with it. A WORM OF DOUBT
The death of the body meanwhile is but temporary, and is made no account of by Christ and the apostles. brought ... to light -- making visible by the Gospel what was before hidden in God's purpose. life -- of the Spirit, acting first on the soul here, about to act on the body also at the resurrection. immortality -- Greek, "incorruptibility" of the new life, not merely of the risen body [Alford], (Ro 8: 11). through -- by means of the Gospel, which brings to light the life and immortality purposed by God from eternity, but manifested now first to man by Christ, who in His own resurrection has given the pledge of His people's final triumph over death through Him. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Kostunica has a reputation for incorruptibility, and now that a majority of voters seems to want Milosevic out, the challenger has the president worried enough to lash out. The Man Who Isn't Slobo
Science has never successfully answered the question, "Why do some bodies remain incorrupt when others rapidly disintegrate in the natural process of putrefaction? The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori
HABET, the reading of most manuscripts, does not account for FERET, but is in itself acceptable enough; compare _Her_ XVI 59-60 'ecce pedum pulsu uisa est mihi terra moueri --/uera loquar ueri [_Heinsius_: uero _codd_] uix _habitura fidem_' and Cic _Flac_ 21 'sed fuerint incorruptae litterae domi; nunc uero quam _habere_ auctoritatem aut quam _fidem_ possunt?'. The Last Poems of Ovid
When his shrine was opened three hundred and thirty years after his decease for the canonical recognition, the flesh had disappeared, and one member alone remained incorrupt, the tongue, which thus, still in silence, gave glory to God. Hymns of St. John Nepomucene
The socialist idea of honors and disgraces provides new resources for the construction of the culture of incorruptness and also serves as a guidance for the construction.
And these censures exercised, not in a lordly, domineering, prelatical way: but in an humble, sober, grave, yet authoritative way, necessary both for preservation of soundness of doctrine, and incorruptness of conversation; and for extirpation of the contrary. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
After the trip, Attlee told reporters in Hong Kong that he was "impressed" by the Chinese government's "incorruptibility" and great energy in "applying the general principles in which it believed. Early Orientations
In addition, suppose a bureaucrat was incorruptible and wanted to do his job with total commitment to efficiency, demanding, say, that contractors reduce swollen overtime costs.
As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
They see little potential for abuse, because they believe that by virtue of his arriving at the ‘correct’ leftist viewpoint, an individual has demonstrated his intellectual and moral incorruptibility.
While molecular genetics has taught us the proper way to reconcile the characteristics of the living world, generation, development towards a goal, and decay, with the contrasting incorruptibility and planlessness of the physical world, it has not resolved our uncertainty about the proper way to relate this language to the notions of 'consciousness', 'mind', 'cognition', Max Delbrück - Nobel Lecture
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
I also want to tell you that I pictured the miracle of the incorrupted body of a Romanian WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report
a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible
I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God.
Most politicians genuinely believe they are incorruptible.
The idea of creating an incorrupt and liberal democracy in the shadows of the Hindu Kush is already absurd. Let Cameron hasten the end of our absurd Afghan war
I also very much appreciate their vivid imagery, e.g. of St. John's miracles shining forth through the interlocked bolts of his tomb (hmyn for Lauds, 1st stanza) or the likening of the silent accusation of his incorrupt tongue to the crying of the blood of Abel (hmyn for Lauds, 5th stanza). Hymns of St. John Nepomucene
Ivory is an arcane substance with the properly of rendering flesh incorruptible.
You entrust to the earth our bodies of earth which you fashioned with your own hands and you restore again what you have given, transforming with incorruptibility and grace what is mortal and deformed in us.
Fine if it were time-served and incorruptible Scottish law lords, but would a UN-sponsored court be as independent and free from bias?
Judges pride themselves on their incorruptibility. No Bathroom Humor, Please, Loo of the Year Awards Are Too Serious
Christ incorruption because he says in another Psalm thou wilt not allow thine holy one to see corruption and that very same, sure promise of David that was given to Christ is given to you extended through the Apostle Paul and the great word of God. Resurrection Sermon
Incorruptibility education for college students is one important part of the ethical and political task on campus , which, under the new circumstances, has both strategic and realistic significance.
Always wrong, in short; but forthright, and incorruptible.
In the meantime I had been quizzed, scrutinised and repeatedly asked to testify to my fair-mindedness and incorruptibility, with an insistence that began to make me feel unworthy: I was not putting in for canonisation, after all.
incorruptibility" of the heavenly bodies, their external connexion with "motor spirits", the influence of the stars on the generation of earthly beings, the four "simple" bodies, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
We are even inclined to acknowledge someone's holiness if she lies incorrupt in a glass case.
His courage, his close interaction with the common people, his incorruptibility, his self-composure in front of the public, his steadfast managerial style and his lack of mercy for the corrupt and mediocre officials — all of them regrettably do not belong to this age, or in this age's China. Global Voices in English » China: Why Zhu Rongji remains popular
Most politicians genuinely believe they are incorruptible.
As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
Persons, whose memories ought to be charged with their own evil actions, rather than that the infamy of them should be laid on the age wherein they lived; which did produce as many men, eminent for their loyalty and incorrupted fidelity to the crown, as any that had preceded it. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
He was incorruptible, and had an intolerance to sloth and greed.
While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
Integrity implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge.
But no such thing shall inherit the heavenly regions; for this were for corruption to inherit incorruption, which is little better than a contradiction in terms. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
As in the case of seeds, he used the term proper to bodies, saying, "it is not quickened, except it die:" so in the case of bodies, the expression belonging to seeds, saying, "it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and like John Paul is also one step away from sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in 2001; his intact embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay. There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor
Tum rursus Bocchus, seu reputando, quae sibi duobus proeliis venerant, [581] seu admonitus ab aliis amicis, quos incorruptos Jugurtha reliquerat, [582] ex omni copia necessariorum quinque delegit, quorum et fides cognita et ingenia validissima erant. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
He laid the letter before him, and there was enjoined such a line of integrity, incorruptness, of bearing every degree of persecution rather than disguising truth, that he went up into the country in a proper frame of mind for doing his duty. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
Although he chafed at times at her uncomforting honesty, he knew it was the thing—sometimes the only thing—that kept them from losing forever the authenticity they had once believed incorruptible. O: A Presidential Novel
After a time, Chen Shou was recommended as filially pious and incorrupt16 by a powerful admirer, the influential official and literatus Empresses and Consorts
Salt, because of its preservative quality, represented purity and incorruptibility.
An important aspect of that transformation is contained in Paul's exposition of the two different types of bodies that we shall receive, the present one "corruptible" and the future one "incorruptible". The Bahama Journal - Bahamas News Headlines
Michelle Bachman invoked the "rule of law", and one conservative blogger held that Gulf Coast residents should take on BP in our "incorruptible" courts. Terrance Heath: From Alaska to the Gulf & The Niger Delta, With The Party of BP
I've given up on certainties, but I do still believe in some things: that British racing is incorruptible, and that one day sport will once again be something we enjoy for its own sake.
incorruptibility" an obligatory doctrine, in spite of the fact that The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
It is this incorruptibility--conferred upon him by his outsider status--which makes him the perfect "poppa" in Double Indemnity. Just to prove I went to grad school (as if anyone cares)
Oh, everyone that thirsteth, do you seek incorruption, do you seek immortality, do you seek eternal life? Resurrection Sermon
Otherwise they think the body would not have been preserved like this, in an incorrupt state, some forty years after he died. The Shroud Codex
Ye, O most laudable, have forsaken the life that draggeth down, the delights of food and flourishing glory as transient things, and have attached yourselves unto Christ, kindled by His exceeding beauty, cleaving unto Him as sweet-smelling wild roses, and ye were God-beseemingly crowned with the crowns of the incorruptible Kingdom. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
The Horse, with its rigorous style and feeling of incorruptible honesty, is directly in the Güney tradition of social protest.
With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony? The French Revolution
That says an awful lot about the integrity and incorruptibility of the man.
Equally satisfactory is the evidence for the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.
On the other hand, what choices do we have with our limited resources and small economy size, and if that is the case why are our minister paying themselves millions and losing our billions under their "incorrupted" hands. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
It is true that original sin hath induced this corruption and incineration upon us; if we had not sinned in Adam, _mortality had not put on immortality_ [366] (as the apostle speaks), nor _corruption had not put on incorruption_, but we had had our transmigration from this to the other world without any mortality, any corruption at all. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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
But, nevertheless, in this social field most participants prefer to misrecognise themselves as incorruptible substances, ergo they think and simulate behaviour as if they were in the angelic spheres.
He further presses upon Christians the duty of loving one another with a pure heart fervently from the consideration of their spiritual relation; they are all born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, &c. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.
Now the body is "corruptible," the body is "mortal:" so that the body indeed remains, for it is the body which is put on; but its mortality and corruption vanish away, when immortality and incorruption come upon it. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
The qualities of loyalty, discipline, justice, incorrupt, civilization have the connection of the law.
There is something altogether unique in the incorruption and germinant power of all His deeds and of all His words. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
We cannot maintain an incorruptible police force in a society that condones corruption.
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)
If God is outside time, there may also be a secure foundation explaining God's immutability (changelessness), incorruptibility and immortality. Philosophy of Religion
In many ways, it is a better introduction than high school civics and college political science courses that preach an incorruptible legal system - especially its judiciary - that always remains above politics.
An incorruptible panel of independent and competent adjudicators is imperative in ensuring that competitors are judged purely on the merit of their performance.
Seasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy, _what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable_. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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
You make the implicit assumption that being a scientist automatically confers on an individual the highest levels of integrity, honesty and incorruptibility in other words you regard scientists in much the same way that parishioners regard priests. How To Generate Scientific Controversy | Live Granades
This conservative estimate is based on the assumption that a large number of ultrasonologists are incorruptible.
But in the course of unmasking them, the novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest.
There was a trip to France to see something called the incorrupt saint, and possibly a position.
He talked of strong institutions not strongmen, incorruptible police, independent judges, a free press. Times, Sunday Times
Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges. Middlemarch
Among these popes is Boniface VIII, who died in 1303 and whose body was also found incorrupt in 1605.
[216] His desire was for the spiritual body, raised in power and incorruption at the day of Christ; and, meanwhile, for that personal perfection in measure and foretaste, which is prepared for those who die in the Lord, and await His coming. Sermons. Volume Third.
Amid the welter of sordid interests, he stood as the symbol of proud incorruptibility.
All celestial objects in the super-lunar region were made of an incorruptible element called aether.
Hæc enim ætas effudit hanc copiam; et, ut opinio mea fert, succus ille et sanguis incorruptus usque ad hanc ætatem oratorum fuit, in qua naturalis inesset, non fucatus nitor. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
His courage, his close interaction with the common people, his incorruptibility, his self-composure in front of the public, his steadfast managerial style and his lack of mercy for the corrupt and mediocre officials — all of them regrettably do not belong to this age, or in this age's China. Global Voices in English » China: Why Zhu Rongji remains popular
With respect to men in other stations of life he is pleased to say, it is decent for a priest "to be sober and sad;" "a judge to be incorrupted, solitary, and unacquainted with courtiers or courtly entertainments ... without plait or wrinkle, sour in look and churlish in speech; contrariwise a courtly gentleman to be lofty and curious in countenance, yet sometimes a creeper and a curry favell with his superiors. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
I set the stage for free and fair elections by constituting an electoral commission comprising of Nigerians with impeccable credentials for firmness and incorruptibility," said President Jonathan. Frontrunners for Nigerian Presidency Focus on Economy, Security
Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
The result was a corps that for decades commanded respect as the pinnacle of efficient, incorruptible policing.
She knew that it would have been a stone shock to Winnie, because Winnie was incorruptible herself. BAD MEDICINE
It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid as to be almost incorruptible. Among the Trees at Elmridge
Already, a couple of journals have brought out articles on the late leader, known for simplicity, incorruptibility and concern for the poor.
We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
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
The next altar on the epistle side is the altar of priests, dedicated to St. John Nepomucene, whose incorrupt tongue in a reliquary is shown in the upper painting (I don't know the technical term in English for this part of the altar; in German it is the "Auszug"), flanked by Saints Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas a Becket. Neuzelle Abbey
I also want to tell you that I pictured the miracle of the incorrupted body of a Romanian Orthodox saint John Jacob from Hozeve in august 2009 in WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report
We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
For these punishments are temporal; but there neither the worm dieth nor is the fire quenched: for that body of all is incorruptible, which is then to be raised up. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
Politicians must present themselves as infallible, incorruptible, incapable of dishonesty.
Yea from the prophet Isaiah, through the Apostle Paul, now to all eternity that it is possible to present incorruption eternally in the human body because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and is offered to you tonight as freely as a drink of water was ever offered. Resurrection Sermon
Reasoning from the common course of nature, what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
The old man may have queered his own promotion but he was still known as the incorruptible and his judgment on the promotions of others was prized. The Bridges at Toko-Ri
And, therefore, since the Lord has power to infuse life into what He has fashioned, and since the flesh is capable of being quickened, what remains to prevent its participating in incorruption, which is a blissful and never-ending life granted by God? ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
What price political openness, legality, free-trade and an incorruptible civil service - I thought - if the end result is an England full of Macdonalds, Seattle coffee bars and pubs that serve Harvester Fayre.
Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
Preacher by his life to giue good example, a Iudge to be incorrupted, solitarie and vnacqainted with Courtiers or Courtly entertainements, & as the Philosopher saith _Oportet iudicem esse rudem & simplicem_, without plaite or wrinkle, sower in looke and churlish in speach, contrariwise a The Arte of English Poesie

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