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Definition of "incorrupt" [in•cor•rupt]
- Free of corruption or immorality. (adjective)
- Not decayed; unspoiled. (adjective)
- Free of errors or faults. (adjective)
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Use "incorrupt" in a sentence
- "Science has never successfully answered the question, "Why do some bodies remain incorrupt when others rapidly disintegrate in the natural process of putrefaction?""
- "There was a trip to France to see something called the incorrupt saint, and possibly a position."
- "The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and like John Paul is also one step away from sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in 2001; his intact embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay."
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