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corruptiun (s.xii1/3)
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corruptiun (s.xii1/3)

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corrupcioun,  corrupciun,  corruption,  corruptioun;  corupcione,  corupcioun,  coruption;  (coripcion  BOZ Cont 171,  corrumptiun)  
  FEW:  corrumpere 2/ii,1234b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  corruption 9,207c TL: corrupcïon 2,902 DEAF:  corrupcïon  DMF:  corruption  TLF:  corruption  OED:  corruption n.  MED:  corrupcioun n.  DMLBS:  corruptio 503b

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1foulness, infectedness: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quant le cors en fust porri, Dunt freit as vifs destructiun La puur e la grant corruptiun  Pet Plet ANTS 666
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Estes vos la gent a mourir Par la corruption de l’eir (caused by drowned animals)  S Greg 751
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  mes la puur Cresseit itant ke la flaur Feseit mult grant corrupciun A ceuz que aproceint cele mesun  Mir N-D 246.45
( 1404 )  diverses gentz privément gettent toutz maneres des entrailles des bestes […] deinz une petite eawe […] par ont […] vyent si grand puour et corruption  Rot Parl1 iii 551
♦taintedness: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Cume veez de un baril afustez Quant bon vin leinz i est versez: La corupciun […] Le vin […] receit  Lum Lais ANTS 2771
( 1327 )  ils ne poeient les dites vyns […] vendre pur leur corupcioun  Rot Parl2 154
2soiling, dirtying: 
( 1335-36 )  (dirty water must not be thrown into the High Street) a nuisance et corupcioun des bones gentz  Leicester ii 21
♦defilement: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  la femme ne pot […] Cunceivre sanz corupciun  Lum Lais ANTS 2726
♦theol.corruption (by a state of sinfulness): 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Deus poet estre par raisun, Qu’il n’ot en li corruptiun  Lapid 213.272
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Par les arbres entent Corruptiun de gent, Nof pechez criminals  Best ants 810
3moral corruption, perversion: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (God) ) por la delectation De lor (=Sodomites’) charnal corruption De soufre les feseit esteindre  Dial Greg SATF 18022
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  crim ne se poet fere ne pecché si noun parmi voluntie corumpue e corrupcion de volunté  Mir Just 138
4 corruption, change in word-form: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mais qui le nom guarde, si trove Que Trinovant est Troie Nove, Que bien pert par corruptiun Faite la compositiun  Brut WACE 1229
corruptiun de(l) sanc
lawcorruption of blood (loss of all rights to rank and title suffered by a person attainted and his descendants): 
( 1416 )  d’estre able, abletz et restoré a lez noun de Count de H., fame, honour […] sanz coruption de sang  Rot Parl1 iv 100
( 1421 )  la corrupcioun del sang parentre le dit nadgairs counte e […] son fitz  Rot Parl1 iv 142
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