1894 Brewer’s / I / Incorruptible (The)
Robespierre (1754–1794). Robert Walpole says that William Shippen was the only man he knew who was proof against a bribe.
“Even the ‘Incorruptibleʹ himself fell from his original ideal.”—Nineteenth Century, August, 1893, p. 272.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.