Word Finder - corrupting

definition

To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

definition

To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.

definition

To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.

example

to corrupt a book

definition

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

The intrigues of the French envoy in corrupting the knights of the order of St John were completely successful.

The habit of absolute rule, always dangerous, was peculiarly corrupting when it penetrated every department of daily life, and when no external interference checked individual caprice in its action on the feelings and fortunes of inferiors.

Subsequently he joined Henry of Navarre, whom he succeeded in withdrawing from the corrupting influence of the house of Valois (1576), and to whom he rendered valuable service, both as a soldier and as a counsellor, in the wars that issued in his elevation to the throne as Henry IV.

In the final judgment of the famous libel case of the Bombay Maharajas, before the Supreme Court of Bombay, in January 1862, these improprieties were severely commented upon; and though so unsparing a critic of Indian sects as Jogendra Nath seems not to believe in actual immoral practices on the part of the Maharajas, still he admits that "the corrupting influence of a religion, that can make its female votaries address amorous songs to their spiritual guides, must be very great."

Public anxiety about the potentially corrupting influence of the new language was constant from its birth.

When the tourists move on their corrupting influence leaves desolation and death - but the ants live on.

But can he leave behind his life of crime, or will he be sucked back into the corrupting Parisian underworld?

Still more serious an encroachment upon the constitution perhaps even than the institution of the major-generals was Cromwell's tampering with the municipal franchise by confiscating the charters, depriving the burgesses, now hostile to his government, of their parliamentary votes, and limiting the franchise to the corporation; thereby corrupting the national liberties at their very source, and introducing an evil precedent only too readily followed by Charles II.

The grandi regained some of their power by corrupting the podestd and by the favour of the popolo minuto or unorganized populace; but their quarrels among themselves prevented them from completely succeeding, while the arti were solid.

It is through corrupting the language and signification of architecture that a real form of resistance can be found.

In 1781 he was imprisoned for a short time in the Bicetre on an accusation of corrupting the morals of his pupils, his real offence being the writing of satirical verse.

The Left assumed that, if deputies could hold office, the king would have the means of corrupting the ablest and most influential.

Again, - just as the Stoics held wisdom to be indispensable to real rectitude of conduct, while at the same time they included under the notion of wisdom a grasp of physical as well as ethical truth, so the similar emphasis laid on inwardness in Christian ethics caused orthodoxy or correctness of religious belief to be regarded as essential to goodness, and heresy as the most fatal of vices, corrupting as it did the very springs of Christian life.

But theology, or the mixture of the two, he regarded as a source of evil to both - fostering the vain belief in a hostility of philosophers to religion, and meanwhile corrupting religion by a pseudo-science.

The power of creating anything is also denied the devil, and only the power of corrupting substances is conceded to him.

However, practically speaking, it sometimes has a corrupting influence on those whom it empowers to act for the state.