Both Uses of
probity
in
The Age of Innocence
- So far there had been no exception to its tacit rule that those who broke the law of probity must pay; and every one was aware that even Beaufort and Beaufort's wife would be offered up unflinchingly to this principle.†
Chpt 27
- The idea of absolute financial probity as the first law of a gentleman's code was too deeply ingrained in him for sentimental considerations to weaken it.†
Chpt 27 *
Definition:
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(probity) complete moral integrity