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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

corrupt †as pp. corrupted; unsound, rotten, debased, venal. XIV. — OF. corrupt or L. corruptus, pp. of corrumpere destroy, ruin, falsify, seduce, f. COR- + rumpere break (see RUPTURE).
Hence corrupt vb. XIV. So corruption XIV. — (O)F. — L.

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