corruptly

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English

Etymology

From corrupt +‎ -ly.

Adverb

corruptly (comparative more corruptly, superlative most corruptly)

  1. In a corrupt manner.
    • 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, , London: Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 566:
      More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: []
    • 1806, , Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, of Hindostan: , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed by C. & W. Galabin and sold by John White , pages 231–232:
      Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.

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