corruptionist

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Etymology edit

Noun edit

corruptionist (plural corruptionists)

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.
- 1825, Sydney Smith, “Bentham's Book of Fallacies”, in Edinburgh Review:
  The first effort of the corruptionist is to fix the epithet Speculative upon any scheme which he thinks may cherish the spirit of reform

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corruptionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)