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Word Meanings - INCORRIGIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.

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  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • APPROVEDLY
    So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • COMMENDER
    One who commends or praises.
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • AMELIORATE
    To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • INCORRIGIBLENESS
    Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
  • DISSOLUTE
    1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
  • DEMORALIZATION
    The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • WICKER
    1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
  • GRACELESS
    1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • WICKEDLY
    In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally. I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17.
  • PROFLIGATENESS
    The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
  • CORRUPTION
    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
  • PROFLIGATE
    An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.
  • COMMENDATARY
    One who holds a living in commendam.
  • DISAPPROVE
    1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • BAILIWICK
    The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
  • INCORRECT
    1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
  • UNCORRUPTIBLE
    Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
  • CONVICIOUS
    Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .
  • BRUNSWICK BLACK
    See BLACK

 

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