incorruptible

English

Alternative forms

• incorruptable, uncorruptible, uncorruptable

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ corruptible.

Adjective

incorruptible (comparative more incorruptible, superlative most incorruptible)

1. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

   Synonym: unbribable

   Antonym: corruptible

2. Not subject to corruption or decay.
   • a. 1737, William Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers:

     Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible

Translations

incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: непадкупны (njepadkupny)
• Bulgarian: неподкупен (bg) (nepodkupen)
• Dutch: onomkoopbaar (nl), onkreukbaar (nl)
• Finnish: turmeltumaton
• French: incorruptible (fr)
• German: unbestechlich (de), nicht korrumpierbar, moralisch gefestigt
• Greek: άφθαρτος (el) (áfthartos), αδιάφθορος (el) (adiáfthoros)
• Italian: incorruttibile (it)
• Polish: nieprzekupny (pl)
• Russian: неподку́пный (ru) (nepodkúpnyj)
• Spanish: incorruptible (es)
• Swedish: omutlig (sv), omutbar (sv)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

not subject to corruption or decay

• Finnish: turmeltumaton
• German: unvergänglich, unzerstörbar (de), unverderblich
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (unriureis)
• Greek: άφθαρτος (el) (áfthartos)

  Ancient: ἄφθαρτος (áphthartos)

• Manx: neuvarvaanagh

Noun

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. (Christianity) A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
2. (historical) One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance.

Derived terms

• sea-green incorruptible

 

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ corruptible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁyp.tibl/

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Adjective

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. incorruptible

Derived terms

• incorruptibilité

Further reading

• “incorruptible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin incorruptibĭlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkorubˈtible/ [ĩŋ.ko.ruβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: in‧co‧rrup‧ti‧ble

Adjective

incorruptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural incorruptibles)

1. incorruptible

   Antonym: corruptible

Related terms

• corromper
• incorruptibilidad
• incorrupto

 

Further reading

• “incorruptible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10