incorruption

Example Sentences

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What I had seen was the point at which from corruption issues incorruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Jewish high priests wore a linen garment of the purest byssus—which was a symbol of firmness, incorruption, and of the clearest splendour, for fine linen is very difficult to tear.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Moreover, anything so equivocal as incorruption, cannot be adduced as a proof in so serious a matter as this.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

The perpetuity of atmosphere through transmitted feeling was far more absorbing than the other chimera, of incorruption.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph

But let us comfort ourselves that one day we shall put off both infirmity and iniquity, mortality shall put on immortality, and corruption be clothed with incorruption.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh