incorruption

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Through doubt the sensuous, which is the particular and visible, is ever becoming spiritualized; even this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.

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

By the change that has taken place, corruption has put on incorruption; the natural body has become a quickening spirit; death is swallowed up in victory.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

We must contemplate these pleasures as seriously as we do the pain of sense in the reprobate, only avoiding the introduction of anything gross or carnal, and, therefore, repugnant to a state of incorruption.

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