corruptibly
English
editEtymology
editFrom corruptible + -ly.
Adverb
editcorruptibly (not comparable)
- In a corruptible way.
- 1680, George Sikes, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes[1], London, Chapter 5, Verse 9:
- They forth-with forfeited and lost the paradisical-state of their corruptibly perfect natural, in Subjection to that Light that shew’d and offer’d them God’s incorruptibly perfect spiritual creature-Life, State, and Meats, which was their first habitation or state of Innocency.
- 1870, Charles Kent, “Philippo: The Dream-Haunted”, in Poems[2], London: Charlton Tucker, page 87:
- Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon,
Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised,
But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—
- 1974, Thomas Griffith, chapter 14, in How True: A Skeptic’s Guide to Believing the News[3], Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 172:
- Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.
- (obsolete) With corruption, in a way that corrupts.
- 1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
- It is too late: the life of all his blood / Is touch’d corruptibly and his pure brain, / Which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house, / Doth by the idle comments that it makes / Foretell the ending of mortality.