Devolution and Corruption

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.
  • synonyms: corruptness
• In a state of progressive putrefaction.
  • synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness
• Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation. )
• Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
  • usage: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
  • synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
• Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity.
  • usage: "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
  • synonyms: subversion
• Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery. to violate duty (as by commiting a felony))
  • usage: "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

• (n.) The act of changing or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
• (n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
• (n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
• (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.