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Incorrupt vs Chaste - What's the difference?

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Incorrupt is a related term of chaste.


As adjectives the difference between incorrupt and chaste

is that incorrupt is not corrupt, void of moral corruption while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

incorrupt

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not corrupt, void of moral corruption
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Isaac Disraeli, title=Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He slighted the plaudits of their theatre, he abhorred their dances and their horse-races, he was abstinent even at a festival, and incorrupt himself, perpetually admonished the dissipated citizens of their impious abandonment of the laws of their country. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=William Wordsworth, title=The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The courts of British justice are impartial and incorrupt ; they respect not the persons of men; the poor man's lamb is, in their estimation, as sacred as the monarch's crown; with inflexible integrity they adjudge to every man his own. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 6, author=Haroon Siddiqui, title=Toronto terror conviction and the war on terror in Afghanistan, work=Toronto Star citation
  • , passage=His, and NATO's, hopes of an incorrupt and credible government has been dealt a blow with the fraud-laden presidential election and Hamid Karzai's political alliances with warlords, war criminals and drug dealers. }}
  • free from physical decay
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Alban Butler, title=The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in a silver case. }}

    Derived terms

    * incorruptness

    chaste

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
  • virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
  • simple, austere, undecorative
  • a chaste style in composition or art
  • modest, decent, morally pure
  • a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes

    Usage notes

    * Married couples are often exhorted to have "chaste sex"--compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock ).

    Derived terms

    * chastity

    See also

    * pure

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