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語源

Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ corruptible.

形容詞

incorruptible (comparative more incorruptible, superlative most incorruptible)

1. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

   Synonym: unbribable

   Antonym: corruptible

2. Not subject to corruption or decay.
   • a. 1737, William Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers:

     Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible

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名詞

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. (Christianity) A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
2. (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.

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