Unstained vs Incorrupt - What's the difference?
unstained | incorrupt | Related terms |
Not dyed or discolored.
Pure, pristine, clean, immaculate, unadulterated.
not corrupt, void of moral corruption
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Isaac Disraeli, title=Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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
, 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=
, 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. }}
Unstained is a related term of incorrupt.
As adjectives the difference between unstained and incorrupt
is that unstained is not dyed or discolored while incorrupt is not corrupt, void of moral corruption.unstained
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(-)- The unstained hardwood floor was pale, but the finish soaked in and made the room seem dark.
- She arrived at the chapel for her marriage with unstained honor.
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*incorrupt
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