Corruption definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CORRUPTION, n. [L.] 1. The act of corrupting, or state of ... putrefaction. Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption. Psalms 16. 2. Putrid matter; pus. 3. Putrescence; a foul ... moral principles; loss of purity or integrity. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. 5. Debasement ... or tendency to a worse state. Keep my honor from corruption. 6. Impurity; depravation; debasement; as a corruption of language. ...
corruption of blood definitions Merriam Webster's Date: 1563 the effect ... transmitting any estate, rank, or title Webster's 1913 Dictionary Corruption Cor*rup"tion (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L. corruptio.] 1. The act of corrupting or making putrid ... of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to ``generation''. --Bacon. 2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. 3. The act of corrupting or of impairing ... Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. --Bancroft. ...
Depravity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DEPRAVITY, n. 1. Corruption; a vitiated state; as the depravity of manners and morals. 2. A vitiated state of the heart; wickedness; corruption of moral principles; destitution of holiness or good principles. WordNet ... perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its ... parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction] 2: a corrupt or depraved or ... depraved Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) 1 a moral corruption; wickedness. b an instance of this; a wicked act. 2 ... and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn: Corruption; vitiation; wickedness; vice; contamination; degeneracy. Usage: Depravity, Depravation, Corruption. ...
... Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1794 a state of corruption due to original sin held in Calvinism to infect every ... and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn: Corruption; vitiation; wickedness; vice; contamination; degeneracy. Usage: Depravity, Depravation, Corruption. Depravilty is a vitiated state of mind or feeling; as ... of principle; a depravation of manners, of the heart, etc. Corruption is the only one of these words which applies to ... wider use: we can speak of the depravation or the corruption of taste and public sentiment. Depravity is more or ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary INCORRUP'TION, n. [in and corruption.] Incapacity of being corrupted. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15. WordNet (r ... 1: characterized by integrity or probity [syn: incorruptness, incorruption] [ant: corruption, corruptness] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 14th century archaic the ... n. [L. incorruptio: cf. F. incorruption. See In- not, and Corruption.] The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. --1 Cor. xv. 42. ...
... Hieronymic 4. Historical Importance of the Vulgate II. ORIGIN 1. Corruption and Confusion of Old Versions 2. Heresy 3. Inevitable Separation ... it upon our the King James Version. II. Origin. 1. Corruption and Confusion of Old Versions: Latin Christianity had not been ... private enterprise and did little to stem the flood of corruption. (2) About the close of the 8th century, Charlemagne commissioned ... variant readings in the margin really helped the process of corruption. His text--though prepared at enormous labor--was far inferior ... for Bibles in the 13th century gave opportunity for further corruption of the text--publishers and copyists being indifferent as to ... steps were taken toward a standard text and to stay corruption by the drawing up of correctoria, i.e. books ...
... any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness. 2. Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character ... putrid matter; especially loathsome dirt or refuse 2. a. moral corruption or defilement b. something that tends to corrupt or defile ... Reference Dictionary n. 1 repugnant or extreme dirt. 2 vileness, corruption, obscenity. 3 foul or obscene language. 4 (prec. by the ... nastiness. 2. Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. To purify the soul from the dross and filth ... Synonyms n. 1. Dirt, nastiness, foul matter. 2. Grossness, foulness, corruption, pollution, impurity, nastiness, defilement, uncleanness. Moby Thesaurus Rabelaisianism, X-rated ... billingsgate, blue language, blue movie, brutality, carrion, colorful language, contemptibleness, corruption, crud, cursing, cussing, dandruff, debasement, decay, defilement, degradation, despicableness, ...
... TO SIRACH V. TRANSMISSION OF THE SEPTUAGINT TEXT 1. Early Corruption of the Text 2. Official Revision of Hebrew Text circa ... Used for centuries by both Jews and Christians it underwent corruption and interpolation, and, notwithstanding the multitude of materials for its ... appear side by side in the transmitted text. 1. Early Corruption of the Text: Textual corruption began early, before the Christian era. We have seen indications ... the letter of Aristeas (III, 5, (9) above). Traces of corruption appear in Philo (e.g. his comment, in Quis Rer ... 1) the purity of the current Hebrew text, (2) the corruption of the current Septuagint text where it deviated from ...
... information, whose working, however, is much hindered by the inevitable corruption of the text, and by our lack of correlative explanatory ... death. A comparison with the partial parallels also illustrates the corruption of the text, and the difficulty of uniformity in lists ... three lists, Genesis, Numbers, Chronicles, represent marked divergences, illustrating the corruption of perhaps all three texts. This list illustrates the genealogical ... Benjaminite, son of Aher, but Aher may possibly be a corruption of the numeral "one," it being the Chronicler's frequent ... 1; uncertain which is right, but probably Daniel is a corruption. Chronicles adds Nogah to the Jerusalem sons, probably developed in ... a Hachmonite, probably correct. "Adino the Heznite" is probably a corruption for "He wielded his spear" (Chronicles). 2. Eleazar, Son ...
... views are possible. Either the Massoretic Text has undergone a corruption of a single letter, or else a redactor made a ... the most doubtful sense. Fortunately this was followed by textual corruption of so happy a character as to remove the difficulty by the change of a single letter; and this corruption was so widespread that it was accepted as the genuine ... the particular bit of the analysis that depends on this corruption falls to the ground. This instance illustrates one branch of ... the numbers of the Israelites are probably due to textual corruption (EPC, 155-69). Further, there are numerous passages where careful ...
... tingo, to stain; Gr. See Tinge.] 1. Literally a staining, corruption, or rendering impure; a corruption of blood. Hence, 2. The judgment of death, or sentence ... real and personal property of the condemned person, and such ``corruption of blood'' that he could neither receive nor transmit by ... of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the ... without judicial sentence. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Corruption of blood.
... is native depravity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature of deterioration of the moral character of man ... sin and condemnation, i.e., (1) a state of moral corruption, and (2) of guilt, as having judicially imputed to them ... is frequently and properly used to denote only the moral corruption of their whole nature inherited by all men from Adam. This inherited moral corruption consists in, (1) the loss of original righteousness; and (2 ... and its tendency is still downward to deeper and deeper corruption, there remaining no recuperative element in the soul. It is ...