corruptness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CORRUPTNESS, noun 1. The state of being corrupt; putrid state or putrescence. 2. A state of moral impurity; as the corruptness of a judge. 3. A vicious state; debasement; impurity; as the corruptness of language.
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