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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
corrupt .
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Examples
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Aquinas, for instance, wrote that ...if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good, since "a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump" ST IIa-IIae, q. 64, a.
Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007
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Aquinas, for instance, wrote that ...if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good, since "a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump" ST IIa-IIae, q. 64, a.
Prudential judgment or doctrinal interpretation? Mike L 2007
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Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.
The Essays 2007
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For these do but corrupt the stream, the other corrupteth the fountain.
The Essays 2007
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And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt, into a number of petty observances.
The Essays 2007
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Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
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Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
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Some go with halters about their necks, some with their hands bound behind them, some others with kniues sticking on their armes or legs: and if after their peregrination, the flesh of their wounded arme festereth or corrupteth, they esteeme that limme to be holy, and thinke that their God is wel pleased with them.
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But in sciences of conceit the first author goeth furthest and time leeseth and corrupteth.
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For hence it hath come, that in arts mechanical the first deviser comes shortest, and time addeth and perfecteth; but in sciences the first author goeth furthest, and time leeseth and corrupteth.
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