Rectitude Definition

rĕktĭ-to͝od, -tyo͝od
noun
Conduct according to moral principles; strict honesty; uprightness of character.
Webster's New World
Correctness of judgment or method.
Webster's New World
Straightness.
Webster's New World
The quality of being straight.
American Heritage

Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. [from 15th c.]

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Origin of Rectitude

  • Middle English, from Middle French rectitude, from Late Latin rectitÅ«dō (“straightness, uprightness"), from Latin rectus (“straight"), perfect passive participle of regō (“regulate, guide").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin rēctitūdō from Latin rēctus straight reg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rectitude Sentence Examples

  • The necessity of moral rectitude was itself an incentive.

  • He gained a great reputation both for rectitude and vigour.

  • His clear, exhaustive and dignified style of treatment evidences the rectitude and nobility of the man.

  • This extinction is achieved in eight ways, namely rectitude of faith, resolve, speech, action, living, effort, thought, self-concentration.

  • His engrossing intellectual labours no doubt tended somewhat to harden his character; and in his zeal for rectitude of purpose he forgot the part which affection and sentiment must ever play in the human constitution.

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