Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'rectitude':
The quality of being straight.
Moral uprightness; righteousness.
The quality or condition of being correct in judgment.
Synonyms of word 'rectitude' :
uprightness
Usage of the word 'rectitude' in Sentences :
That century of centuries will surely come in the next few weeks, and nobody would begrudge him that.
Dennis seeks to shift the focus of the object of evidence law to a point beyond the determination of factual rectitude.
But her last phrase clearly acknowledges that, for her, business rectitude is in itself actually pious.
Moslem teachers have in my presence utterly denied that Allah is subject to an absolute standard of moral rectitude.
There's big ambition, deep resentment, and fiscal rectitude
Usage of the word 'rectitude' in popular media :
Washington Post —
“charlie mccreevy's on his way to brussels because his financial
rectitude might prove an electoral embarrassment.....
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Wall Street Journal —
“one such gesture was personally administering communion to pinochet in acknowledgment of his complete religious
rectitude.....
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“but as clearly as leigh sees tom and gerri through mary's eyes, he just as frankly admires the life they've made for themselves through
rectitude and hard work (both of them work in excavation, tom as a geologist, gerri as a social worker)....
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