incorruption

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Speaking again of the body, he says: "It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption."

From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.

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

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.

From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George

We have briefly touched upon these matters as well as the incorruption of his body, that the lofty nature of the man may be better known to our readers.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert