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recti tudes

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rec⋅ti⋅tude

[rek-ti-tood, -tyood]
–noun
1. rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
2. correctness: rectitude of judgment.
3. straightness.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < MF < LL rēctitūdin- (s. of rēctitūdō) straightness, equiv. to L rēct(us) right + -tūdin- -tude


1. integrity, probity, principle.
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