Both Uses of
rectitude
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws…†
Chpt 17
- Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(rectitude) moral integrity