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1 —as in:
a person of high integrity
Definition
having strong moral principles — especially honesty- They agreed to have her judge the contest because everyone admires her integrity.
integrity = having strong moral principles — especially honesty
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The District Attorney created the Justice System Integrity Division to detect, investigate, and prosecute criminal misconduct among those sworn to uphold the law.
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.Oprah Winfrey
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
- I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system— that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Integrity," she said next. "Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions."Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. ... Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.George Orwell -- 1984
- There's some of ye, I see, more out of malice than integrity, would try him to the utmost,William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
- My ambition and integrity were nothing to themRalph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- his integrity stands without blemishWilliam Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
integrity = moral principles
integrity = reputation for maintaining strong moral principles
integrity = reputation for maintaining strong moral principles
integrity = strong moral principles
integrity = strong moral principles
integrity = having strong moral principles
integrity = reputation for maintaining strong moral principles
2 —as in:
system integrity
Definition
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting- The antivirus software helps to assure system integrity.
integrity = an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The aircraft lost structural integrity.
- The integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development.
- The database assures referential integrity.
- The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale corn bread.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of componentsWilliam Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
- I have as much interest in the maintenance of .... the integrity of the nation as any other man.... This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys . . .James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
- During the antebellum period many southerners had avoided using the words slaves and slavery, preferring instead servants and southern institutions. Some Confederate soldiers kept up this practice even in private letters, referring to "our own social institutions," "the integrity of all our institutions," "the institutions of the whole South" as the cause for which they fought.James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
- But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.George Orwell -- 1984
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.Erich Fromm
integrity = strength (unbroken completeness)
integrity = an undivided completeness
integrity = an undivided or unbroken completeness
integrity = an undivided completeness (where everyone is the same)