[f. CORRUPTER + -ESS.] A female corrupter; also fig. of things.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 316. Man’s fierce corruptress, Fight, Set up her bristles in the field with lances long and light.

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1624.  Fletcher, Wife for Month, V. iii. Peace, thou rude bawd Thou studied old corruptress.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. i. 2. What terms wouldst thou have me to keep with such a sweet corruptress?

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1879.  Farrar, St. Paul, II. 11. Ionia had been the corruptress of Greece, Ephesus was the corruptress of Ionia.

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