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Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.

Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [R.]

Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] Coleridge.

The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.

Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.

Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.

In an incorrigible manner.

Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.

Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Uncorrupted. [Obs.] Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.

Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.

In an incorruptible manner.

The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.

Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke.