unbribable

noun

money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.: The motorist offered the arresting officer a bribe to let him go.

anything given or serving to persuade or induce: The children were given candy as a bribe to be good.

verb (used with object)

to give or promise a bribe to: They bribed the reporter to forget about what he had seen.

to influence or corrupt by a bribe: The judge was too honest to be bribed.

verb (used without object)

to give a bribe; practice bribery.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French: remnant of food given as alms, said to be < an expressive base *bri(m)b- denoting something small

Related forms

brib·a·ble, bribe·a·ble, adjective

brib·a·bil·i·ty, bribe·a·bil·i·ty, noun

brib·ee, noun

brib·er, noun

out·bribe, verb (used with object), out·bribed, out·brib·ing.

un·brib·a·ble, adjective

un·brib·a·bly, adverb

un·bribed, adjective

un·brib·ing, adjective

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World English Dictionary

bribe (braɪb)

—vb
1.	to promise, offer, or give something, usually money, to (a person) to procure services or gain influence, esp illegally

—n
2.	a reward, such as money or favour, given or offered for this purpose
3.	any persuasion or lure
4.	a length of flawed or damaged cloth removed from the main piece

[C14: from Old French briber to beg, of obscure origin]

'bribable

—*adj*

'bribeable

—*adj*

'briber

—n

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Word Origin & History

bribe

late 14c., "thing stolen," from O.Fr. bribe "bit, piece, hunk; morsel of bread given to beggars" (14c.), from briber, brimber "to beg," a general Romanic word (Gamillscheg marks it as Rotwelsch, i.e. "thieves' jargon"), of uncertain origin. Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is first

attested 1530s. As a verb, from late 14c. Related: Bribed; bribing.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Bribe definition

None to be taken; "for the gift maketh open eyes blind, and perverteth the cause of the righteous" (Ex. 23:8, literally rendered).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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"We had got a loaf of home-made bread, and musk and water melons for dessert. For this farmer, a clever and well-disposed man, cultivated a large patch of melons for the Hooksett and Concord markets. He hospitably entertained us the next day, exhibiting his hop-fields and kiln and melon-patch, warning us to step over the tight rope which surrounded the latter at a foot from the ground, while he pointed to a little bower at one corner, where it connected with the lock of a gun ranging with the line, and where, he informed us, he sometimes sat in pleasant nights to defend his premises against thieves. We stepped high over the line, and sympathized with our host's on the whole quite human, if not humane, interest in the success of his experiment. That night especially thieves were to be expected, from rumors in the atmosphere, and the priming was not wet. He was a Methodist man, who had his dwelling between the river and Uncannunuc Mountain; who there belonged, and stayed at home there, and by the encouragement of distant political organizations, and by his own tenacity, held a property in his melons, and continued to plant. We suggested melon seeds of new varieties and fruit of foreign flavor to be added to his stock. We had come away up here among the hills to learn the impartial and unbribable influence of Nature. Strawberries and melons grew as well in one man's garden as another's, and the sun lodges as kindly under his hillside,—when we had imagined that she inclined rather to some few earnest and faithful souls whom we know."

-Henry David Thoreau

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