Rectitude
['rektɪtjuːd] or ['rɛktɪtʊd]
Definition
(n.) Straightness.
(n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
(n.) Right judgment.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Uprightness, integrity, probity, honesty, justice, equity, virtue, goodness, righteousness, principle.
Inputed by Donald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Straightforwardness, uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, right,uprightness, incorruptness
ANT:Obliquity, perverseness, crookedness, tortuousness, wrong, underhandedness,iniquity, immorality, impropriety, depravity, corruption
Typed by Brooke
Definition
n. uprightness: correctness of principle or practice: integrity: correctness.
Editor: Orville
Examples
- Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But what they gained in generosity they lost in rectitude. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To give you a lesson on the cultivation of rectitude, to disgust you with craft and false sentiment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dear Miss Clack, a pious fraud which even your high moral rectitude will excuse! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Edited by Ethelred