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rectitude

[ rek-ti-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue:

    the rectitude of her motives.

    Synonyms: integrity, principle, probity

  2. correctness:

    rectitude of judgment.



rectitude

/ ˈrɛktɪˌtjuːd /

noun

  1. moral or religious correctness
  2. correctness of judgment


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rectitude1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Middle French rectitude, “honesty,” from Late Latin rēctitūdin- (stem of rēctitūdō “straightness, upright posture, honesty, justice”), equivalent to Latin rēct(us) right + -tūdin- -tude

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rectitude1

C15: from Late Latin rectitūdō , from Latin rectus right, straight, from regere to rule

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Example Sentences

The Victorians looked to it for lessons in Empire and moral rectitude.

Not a good look for a woman whose reputation is built on moral rectitude.

Liberal women, he claimed, helped cause the debt by “neutering American men,” which apparently undermined their fiscal rectitude.

For some, it may have been his personal rectitude after Bill Clinton.

Maybe it is his own reputation for rectitude, a reputation buttressed by the lack of scandals in his administration.

Over a range, therefore, of infinite extent, the principles of eternal rectitude are maintained.

He supposed that all men are born equally good, but that the temptations of the world at length destroy the original rectitude.

In the first place, the present state of society testifies to a neglect somewhere of inculcating habits of rectitude.

Both the purity of his nature and the rectitude of his judgment would have kept him straight.'

Woman's virtue is founded upon a modest countenance, precise behavior, rectitude, and a deficiency of suitors.

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