A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1562-1596
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Uncorrupt(e, Wncurrupt, p.p. [ME and e.m.E. vncorupt (Wyclif), vncorrupte (a1425); Corrupt p.p.] a. That has not rotted, undecayed. b. Free from moral corruption, pure. = Incorrupt adj. c. Of a language: Free from alien influences; pristine. —a. a1578 Pitsc. I 61/7.
Ane body of ane ȝoung chyld … allis fresche [and] wncurrupt … as the first houre at it was burieit 1596 Dalr. I 36/13.
Vndir that earth ar fund … blokis of wondirful … tries … mony of thame … remanes ȝit nocht wormetin and vncorrupte —b. 1562-92 Wode's Psalter xv.
The man whose life is vncorrupt, whose workes are iust & straight —c. 1596 Dalr. I 95/22.
Mair than 2 thowsand ȝeirs thay [sc. the Scottis] haue keipet the toung hail vncorrupte
