corruptive

corruptive adjective: tending to corrupt.

Adjective

corruptive (comparative more corruptive, superlative most corruptive)

Tending to corrupt.
- The sensitive appetite is one generic power, and is called sensuality; but it is divided into two powers, which are species of the sensitive appetite---the irascible and the concupiscible. In order to make this clear, we must observe that in natural corruptible things there is needed an inclination...1274, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, Benziger Brothers, page 915
- And as the body shall be spiritual, so truly immortal, and free from all corruptive change; as the Sun which for so many ages hath shined with an equal brightness to the World, and hath a durable fulness of light in it.1675, William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, page 188

So the exotic writer of Modernia prepares a reeking corruptive dish for his readers, o.r else an anaesthetic concocted from the malodorous flowers of the night.1928, The North American Review Volume CCXXVI, O. Everett, →ISBN, page 67:
Following the corruptive path blazed by White House predecessors, Mr.2007 January 28, Dorothy Samuels, “The George W. Bush Library: Scholarly Mecca or $500 Million Oxymoron?”, in New York Times:

comparative	more corruptive
superlative	most corruptive

From corrupt + -ive.

What does corruptive mean?: Corruptive means tending to corrupt.
How do you use corruptive in a sentence?: So the exotic writer of Modernia prepares a reeking corruptive dish for his readers, o.r else an anaesthetic concocted from the malodorous flowers of the night.
What part of speech is corruptive?: Corruptive is an adjective.

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