Word of the Day

Wednesday, April 03, 2002

probity

\PRO-buh-tee\ , noun;

Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness.

Quotes:

Unless some light is shed on shady dealings and some probity restored, more young lives will be blighted and careers choked off.

-- Norman Lebrecht, Who Killed Classical Music?

To suggest that this exemplar of financial probity was enriching himself at public expense was to shake the very foundations of the new Republic.

-- William Safire, Scandalmonger

Origin:

Probity is from Latin probitas, from probus, "good, upright, virtuous."