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Bookmark or Share- Is there a difference between "innocent" and "not guilty"?3 free from moral wrong; not corrupted: an innocent child simple; naive: she is a poor, innocent young creature. 4 not intended to cause harm or offense; harmless: So the OED gives precedent to innocence in a particular sense, so it is okay to say "I'm innocent of murder", and plead one's innocence to a crime.
- What French phrase is the origin of "gardyloo?"To make its meaning utterly clear and immediately apparent, those online sources should state "Gardyloo" as coming from French "se garder de," literally "guard oneself from" [=protect oneself from; take cover/shelter], corrupted into "Garder" in old, colloquial French.
- For computer science, are the files corrupted or corrupt?"Corrupt" and "corrupted" have different meanings, and these words sound different when applied to politicians. A "corrupt senator" feels different than "corrupted senator". The second feels like something has been done to his moral character, while the first describes him as doing immoral things.
- What is the name of the first decade in a century?Corrupted? Or corrected? I've yet to see evidence of its use only as the first 10 years. Surely, if I were to say "Some feel the dark ages started in the twelve-hundreds" it wouldn't be so limited. –
- Corrupt or corrupted? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeOrdinarily, "corrupted" should be emphasizing more that this is something that happened as opposed to the present state. If we say "The leader was corrupted," we start wondering when it happened, who corrupted him, how, etc. "The leader was corrupt" simply describes how he is now. But computer tech is different.
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