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corrupt 1. (of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations 2. (of computer programs or data) containing errors corrupt [kə′rəpt] (computer science) To destroy or alter information so that it is no longer reliable. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Added to these are moral factors: the corruptive influence of autocratic power (Caligula, Nero, and their ilk), the corrosive effects of sensualism (private orgies and seductive spas), the dehumanizing effects of institutionalized slavery, the disappearance of former virtues (chiefly self-reliance and self-sacrifice), and the enervation and distraction induced by Christianity's emphasis on brotherly love and otherworldly hope. In her alleged seduction of the (white) man, the female slave not only was said to undercut, via her corruptive presence, the domesticity of the white household with its racialized bourgeois structures of family, but also to dismantle the already fragile black family structure with its emasculated male patriarch. 52) Commentators blamed such activity on an exposure at a young age to the corruptive influences of the slums, where children grew up in broken homes with ignorant or inattentive parents and suffered from a lack of schooling and discipline. |
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