(a.) Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
(a.) Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
(n.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
(n.) The quality or state of being incorruptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally the importance of fish will not only increase for economic, but certainly also for ecological reasons, because it is well established as an incorruptible bioindicator of our environment.
(2) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(3) "The sharia justice system is swift and incorruptible.
(4) But Mr Putin has ended that disarray and rehabilitated the KGB as the embodiment of the ascetic, incorruptible public service.
(5) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(6) To his supporters he is an efficient, tough and incorruptible administrator whose style of economic governance – dubbed " Modinomics " – has worked wonders in Gujarat and can be rolled out across India.
(7) She writes of herself: "Impregnably honest, utterly fearless, incorruptible by the worldly lures which tend to weaken and deflect most reformers, yet sane, scientific and happy, Dr Stopes, hating all conflict, is fighting on behalf of others."
(8) Those super-rich Russians and Chinese – the biggest buyers of investor visas for people committing at least £1m – see a stable political system, an open economy, honest courts and incorruptible officials.
(9) The embassy-provided programme notes described Jiao as “a role model for civil servants with his hardworking, upright, incorruptible personality”.
(10) But after a year in which Boko Haram and government corruption has dominated local headlines, the ex-general has two things going for him: a reputation for strong leadership and incorruptibility.
(11) To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity.” Not a week passes without reference to these statements in the Spanish media: only the other week, the founding editor of the centre-right daily El Mundo sarcastically dubbed Iglesias “The incorruptible senor X” , a reference to Robespierre’s nickname.
(12) Michnik, Lehman said, was "a brave, incorruptible and tolerant Polish rebel who has never tired of speaking out in the European public sphere".
(13) Even his most vicious critics would concede that he is utterly incorruptible; he knows how to handle a global crisis; and he is a genuine devotee of the game.)
(14) But by hollowing out the civil service – historically the only system via which efficient and incorrupt public services were brought into being – this government is set to increase the opportunities for corruption and corporate exploitation of environments chronically prone to market failure while undermining exactly the institutions that might protect the taxpayer.
(15) Glossing over the moderate liberals’ appalling political errors, the standard account traces the Terror to Robespierre’s beliefs: thus emerges the idea that radical democracy, equality and incorruptibility breed violence.
(16) The come-back of a psychopathology of "faculties" linked to the notion of deficiency and reinforced by fascination with computers, also represents the need of humankind to believe in an incorruptible soul.
Pain
Definition:
(n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
(n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
(n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
(n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
(n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
(10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
(20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.