Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Moral uprightness; righteousness.
- noun The quality or condition of being correct in judgment.
- noun The quality of being straight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Straightness: as, the rectitude of a line.
- noun Rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct by either divine or human laws; integrity; honesty; justice.
- noun Correctness; freedom from error, as of conduct.
- noun Synonyms Integrity, Uprightness, etc. (see
honesty ), principle, equity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Straightness.
- noun Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
- noun rare Right judgment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Next, with the insolent assumption of superiority, which he founds on what he calls the rectitude of his purpose, he proposed we should both withdraw from a neighbourhood into which we could bring nothing but wretchedness. —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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-- Next, with the insolent assumption of superiority, which he founds on what he calls the rectitude of his purpose, he proposed we should both withdraw from a neighbourhood into which we could bring nothing but wretchedness.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
George Soros: America Needs Stimulus Not Virtue ft.com 2010
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
George Soros: America Needs Stimulus Not Virtue The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
George Soros: America Needs Stimulus Not Virtue The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity, but by political considerations.
George Soros: How Partisanship Is Blocking Economic Recovery in the U.S. George Soros 2010
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity, but by political considerations.
George Soros: How Partisanship Is Blocking Economic Recovery in the U.S. George Soros 2010
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
George Soros: America Needs Stimulus Not Virtue The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Let the patricians speak for themselves, but to claim to be the bearers of American values and rectitude is just silly and outrageous. —
Obama Dines With Conservative Columnists - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
George Soros: America Needs Stimulus Not Virtue The Huffington Post News Team 2010
oroboros commented on the word rectitude
The formal, dignified manner adopted by proctologists. --Mensa word list winner 2006
March 2, 2007
oroboros commented on the word rectitude
RectitUDE
April 26, 2008
whichbe commented on the word rectitude
What comes out of the rector.
December 24, 2008
waltermargin commented on the word rectitude
The disposition of a ruler?
October 13, 2009