incorruptible

Meanings

Adjective

• Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
• Not subject to corruption or decay.

Noun

• A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
• 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. Surface analysis: in- + corruptible.