corruptibly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a corruptible way.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon, Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised, But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—"
- "Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks."
- "Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing."
- "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."
Etymology
From corruptible + -ly.