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Another word for rectitude

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Noun

  1. The quality or state of being morally sound

    See also:

    right

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Another word for rectitude

Noun
  1. See also:

    honesty

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The necessity of moral rectitude was itself an incentive.

  • His clear, exhaustive and dignified style of treatment evidences the rectitude and nobility of the man.

  • He gained a great reputation both for rectitude and vigour.

  • His engrossing intellectual labours no doubt tended somewhat to harden his character; and in his zeal for rectitude of purpose he forgot the part which affection and sentiment must ever play in the human constitution.

  • This extinction is achieved in eight ways, namely rectitude of faith, resolve, speech, action, living, effort, thought, self-concentration.

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