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Incorruptible vs Incorrupt - What's the difference?

incorruptible | incorrupt |

As adjectives the difference between incorruptible and incorrupt

is that incorruptible is not subject to corruption or decay while incorrupt is not corrupt, void of moral corruption.

As a noun incorruptible

is 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.

incorruptible

English

Alternative forms

* incorruptable * uncorruptible * uncorruptable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not subject to corruption or decay.
  • * Wake
    • Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances.
  • Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • ----

    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