The Only Use of
probity
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become at once if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic or casually associate.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(probity) complete moral integrity