incorruptness

incorruptness

English

Etymology

incorrupt +‎ -ness

Noun

incorruptness (uncountable)

1. the state of being incorrupt
   • 1884, L. W. Yaggy, Museum of Antiquity‎:

     "Equally satisfactory is the evidence for the integrity and incorruptness of the New Testament.

   • 1901, Adolph Harnack, History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)‎:

     To make their proof more precise Tertullian and Irenaeus therefore asserted that the Churches guaranteed the incorruptness of the apostolic inheritance, inasmuch as they could point to a chain of "elders," or, in other words, an "ordo episcoporum per successionem ab initio decurrens," which was a pledge that nothing false had been mixed up with it.

Synonyms

• (archaic) incorruption