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- noun Plural form of
probity .
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Examples
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His was one of those rigid, unbending probities which never borrow for fear of not returning, and never lend for fear of not recovering.
Indiana 1900
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Stricter man, according to his Formula, to his Credo and his Cant, of probities, benevolences, pleasures-of-virtue, and such like, lived not in that age.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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All of this can be predicted to perfect accuracy by one scientist.). just now, -0 / +1Psychohistory wasn't used to tell the future it was used to create a detailed set of probities around what large groups of people would do given a defined set of stimuli.
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