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Corrupt vs Erring - What's the difference?

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Corrupt is a related term of erring.


As verbs the difference between corrupt and erring

is that corrupt is to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert while erring is or erring can be .

As an adjective corrupt

is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

As a noun erring is

the act of one who errs; sin.

corrupt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
    • The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
  • Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
    • The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
    It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
  • In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • * Knolles
    • Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

    Quotations

    * , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    Synonyms

    * corrupted

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
    • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
  • * , Genesis 6:12
    • And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
    • to corrupt language, or a holy text
  • To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 19
    • Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .

    Related terms

    * corruptible * corruption * incorruptible

    References

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    erring

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the verb err .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who errs; sin.
  • * 1837 , Matthew Hole, ?John Allen Giles, Practical discourses on the liturgy of the Church of England (page 116)
    • these errings and strayings are here, according to the language of Scripture, compared to those of sheep, and lost sheep.

    Etymology 2

    From the verb er .

    Verb

    (head)

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