Integrity
[ɪn'tegrɪtɪ] or [ɪn'tɛɡrəti]
Definition
(noun.) moral soundness; 'he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business'; 'they admired his scrupulous professional integrity'.
(noun.) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; 'the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development'; 'he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia'.
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Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
(n.) Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
(n.) Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Wholeness, entireness, entirety, completeness.[2]. Rectitude, uprightness, probity, honesty, virtue, goodness, principle, moral soundness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Uprightness, honor, honesty, probity, truthfulness, candor, single-mindedness,{[con]?}, conscientiousness, entireness, rectitude, completeness, parity
ANT:Unfairness, sleight, underhandedness, meanness, chicanery, duplicity, fraud,roguery, rascality
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Definition
n. entireness wholeness: the unimpaired state of anything: uprightness: honesty: purity.
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Examples
- She wishes me to engage her as bonne or gouvernante; tells a tale full of integrity, but gives no reference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is equivalent to mental integrity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When Sumter was fired upon and the integrity of the Union threatened, there was no man more ready to serve his country than he. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr Podsnap's notions of the Arts in their integrity might have been stated thus. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was a good power-loom weaver, and a man of perfect integrity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But his mind was so realistic, his integrity so great that he could not blink the fact that there had been a defeat. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His answers, I understood afterwards, evinced both wisdom and integrity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The point at issue in a theory of educational value is then the unity or integrity of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Elinor gloried in his integrity; and Marianne forgave all his offences in compassion for his punishment. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Intellectual integrity, honesty, and sincerity are at bottom not matters of conscious purpose but of quality of active response. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This lamp, when put on the circuit, lighted up brightly to incandescence and maintained its integrity for over forty hours, and lo! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upon the integrity of this man, whether in public or in private life, there rests no stain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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