corruptive

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corruptive

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From corrupt + -ive.

adjective more corruptive · most corruptive

Tending to corrupt. The sensitive appetite is one generic power, and is called sensuality; but it is divided into two powers, which are species of the sensitive appetite---the irascible and the concupiscible. In order to make this clear, we must observe that in natural corruptible things there is needed an inclination

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@misc{corruptive_2026,
  title = {corruptive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corruptive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}