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1.
rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
2.
correctness: rectitude of judgment.
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rectitude
early 15c., "quality of being straight," from M.Fr. rectitude (14c.), from L.L. rectitudinem (nom. rectitudo) "straightness, uprightness," from L. rectus "straight" (see right). Sense of "upright in conduct or character" is from 1530s.
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