Both Uses of
integrity
in
Middlemarch
- About his ordinary bearing there was a certain fling, a fearless expectation of success, a confidence in his own powers and integrity much fortified by contempt for petty obstacles or seductions of which he had had no experience.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was a proof of the force with which certain characteristics in Dorothea impressed those around her, that her husband, with all his jealousy and suspicion, had gathered implicit trust in the integrity of her promises, and her power of devoting herself to her idea of the right and best.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(integrity as in: a person of high integrity) having strong moral principles -- especially honesty