Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which corrupts. Also written
corruptor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints.
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- noun
Agent noun ofcorrupt ; one who corrupts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Further, just as a thing is taken by force for the sake of possession, so is a woman taken by force for pleasure; wherefore Isidore says that “he who commits a rape is called a corrupter, and the victim of the rape is said to be corrupted.”
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Isidore says (Etym. x) that "he who commits a rape is called a corrupter, and the victim of the rape is said to be corrupted."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery.
The Prince 1515
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For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery.
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The procedure against the "corrupter" (_mésith_), who sought to injure the purity of religion, is explained in the Talmud, with details, the naïve impudence of which provokes a smile.
The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857
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When a man was accused of being a "corrupter," two witnesses were suborned who were concealed behind a partition.
The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857
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Cesarotti was called corrupter, sacrilegious, profane, and assailed with titles of obscene contumely; but the poems of Ossian were read by all, and the name of the translator, till then little known, became famous in and out of Italy. "
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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But this is a play about class as well as sex: I had forgotten how subtly Rattigan suggests the opposing counsels inhabit the same masonic clubman's world while the accused, however innocent of the charge, is branded a corrupter of youth and a vulgar sensualist.
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Price continued: He Ashcroft is not the corrupter.
The mystery of Lord Ashcroft and the paradise island business empire 2012
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Give us a slight hope that not all politicians are corrupty corrupter-sons!
Better know a wine law: Maryland! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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