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A :: A () A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they..

Corruption :: Corruption (n.) 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..

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

Corruptionist :: Corruptionist (n.) One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption..

Adjutator :: Adjutator (n.) A corruption of Agitator.

Prial :: Prial (n.) A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n..

Prithee :: Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I..

Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..

Symptomatic :: Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue..

Incorruption :: Incorruption (n.) The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption..

Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption..

Swanimote :: Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping.

Ods :: Ods (interj.) A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.

Transcription :: Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions..

Godild :: Godild () A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless..

Weigh :: Weigh (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh..

Vitiation :: Vitiation (n.) The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract..

Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption.

Emendation :: Emendation (n.) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations..

Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..

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