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in a state of progressive putrefaction

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

decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

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"

in a state of progressive putrefaction

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

decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

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 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.

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.

The act of changing for the worse: the state of being changed for the worse; decay; impurity; depravity.

Rottenness: putrid matter: impurity: bribery.

Rottenness; putrid matter; depravity; bribery.

The act of corrupting; rottenness; decay; dishonesty; bribery.

The act of corrupting or state of being corrupt; the dissolution or disintegration of bodies in the process of putrefaction; putrid matter; deterioration; a debased or impure state; bribery; a taint in the blood as a consequence of an act of attainder.

Act of corrupting. State of being corrupted. Reaction of the particles of a body upon each other. It is probable that something like corruption may take place even in the living body. The word is used, at times, like Bone with the French, in vague mannger for a state of puriform, putrid, or other breaking down of parts or humours. To spit corruption, is a vulgar expression.

n. Act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt; —putrid matter; —perversion or deterioration of moral principle; —effort to destroy moral principle; bribery; taint; defilement; depravation; gross wickedness; —taint or impurity of blood.

The principle by which bodies tend to the separation of their parts; wickedness, perversion of principles; putrescence; matter or pus in a sore; the means by which anything is vitiated, depravation.