discorrupt

discorrupt

English

Verb

discorrupt (third-person singular simple present discorrupts, present participle discorrupting, simple past and past participle discorrupted)

1. To purify; to make less corrupt

   • 1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass‎, page 98:

     I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

     2004 October 2, Lawrence Kramer (musicologist), Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss‎, page 103:

     It is more than possible to hear Brünnhilde in the immolation scene voicing a nationalist promise that if modernity will only discorrupt itself, the next Siegfried will not have to die in squalor.

     2007, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica‎, page 21:

     […] today he goes, no, until late he went merrily to discorrupt and tranquillize readers […]