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Definición y significado de corruption

Definición

corruption (n.)

1.the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

2.inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)"he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

3.destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity"corruption of a minor" "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"

4.moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles"the luxury and corruption among the upper classes" "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration" "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity" "Rome had fallen into moral put..."

5.lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

6.decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

7.in a state of progressive putrefaction

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Merriam Webster

CorruptionCor*rup"tion (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L. corruptio.]
1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to “generation”. Bacon.

2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam.

They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

☞ Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott.

4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others.

Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity.