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/rˈɛktɪtˌud/ Listen

noun

Rectitude n.

Straightness. (R.)

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.

Right judgment. (R.)

Synonyms: See Justice.

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Etymology of 'Rectitude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... inscrutably at this miracle of physical unfitness. Under his gaze the pitiful and insignificant figure bore itself as with a majesty of rectitude. ...

— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... question were soon to open at Washington Park, on the South Side, and were considered quite society affairs among those who did not affect religious rectitude and conservatism. Mrs. Hurstwood had never asked for a whole season ticket before, but this year certain considerations decided her to get a box. For one thing, one of her neighbours, a certain Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, who were possessors of money, made out of the coal business, had ...

— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... incarceration, he sent for Mr. Wallingford, who visited him without delay. He found him a shrinking, cowed, and frightened culprit; not a man, conscious of rectitude, and therefore firm in bearing, though in a false and ...

— The Allen House - or Twenty Years Ago and Now • T. S. Arthur

... stainless history of her race, and tenacious of the dignity and of the magnitude of her House, she yet was too courageous and too haughty a woman not to be capable of braving calumny, if conscious of her own pure rectitude beneath it; not to be capable of incurring false censure, if encountered in the path of justice and of magnanimity. It was possible, even on herself it dawned as possible, that so great might become her compassion and her tenderness for this man that she would, in some distant ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... in the dusk, was walking briskly up the path that led in from the road. It proved to be the Wild Ram of the Mountains, freshened by the look of rectitude that the razor gave to his face ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

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