All 4 Uses of
probity
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "I will not," continued he, after a moment's silence, "conceal from you, that while your probity and exactitude up to this moment are universally acknowledged, yet the report is current in Marseilles that you are not able to meet your liabilities."†
Chpt 29-30 *
- Her husband, who, when he married her, had no other patrimony than his noble probity, his first-rate ability, and his spotless reputation, wished to possess as much as his wife.†
Chpt 49-50
- "Your probity," replied the stranger, "is so well known to the prefect that he wishes as a magistrate to ascertain from you some particulars connected with the public safety, to ascertain which I am deputed to see you.†
Chpt 69-70
- "Yet," replied Beauchamp haughtily, "there are occasions when probity commands"— "M.†
Chpt 87-88
Definition:
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(probity) complete moral integrity