different between incorruptible vs devourer

English

Alternative forms

• incorruptable, uncorruptible, uncorruptable

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. Surface analysis: in- +? corruptible.

Adjective

incorruptible (comparative more incorruptible, superlative most incorruptible)

1. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

   Synonym: unbribable

   Antonym: corruptible

2. Not subject to corruption or decay.
   • a. 1737, William Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers

     Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible

Translations

Noun

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. (Christianity) A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
2. (historical) One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incorruptibilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +? corruptible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k?.?yp.tibl/

Adjective

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. incorruptible

Further reading

• “incorruptible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

incorruptible (plural incorruptibles)

1. incorruptible

English

Etymology

devour +? -er

Noun

devourer (plural devourers)

1. One who devours.
   • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (page 354)

     It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]

Anagrams

• overrude

Middle French

Verb

devourer

1. to devour; to consume; to eat

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Old French

Verb

devourer

1. Alternative form of devorer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb has a stressed present stem deveur distinct from the unstressed stem devour. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.