Sample sentences for RECTITUDE

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moral integrity

More rarely, rectitude can reference correctness of judgment. or procedure.

In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

rectitude = moral integrity

Nancy was silent: her spirit of rectitude would not let her try to soften the edge of what she felt to be a just compunction.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government
The Golden Age was first created, which without any avenger Spontaneously without law cherished fidelity and rectitude.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude that we may look and say, there is a human race behind us.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Mr Lehr slept on undisturbed upon his back with the thin rectitude of a bishop upon a tomb.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
Stubberd, with a suppressed gaze of victorious rectitude at the old woman, continued: "Was standing myself.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
The answer was given quietly, but with a voice as steady as a fearless nature and the consciousness of rectitude could make it.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
Yes, you're right," Jaime would grudgingly admit with a rectitude that prevented him from arguing in bad faith.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
He feels very powerful through his rectitude, but in fact, hidden in his heart ... evil.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
She wanted to wrest from him an acknowledgment of his moral depravity-but only his own moral rectitude could attach significance to such a verdict.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Propelled from the depths of her ignorance, silly imagining and girlish rectitude, she had come to call a halt.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to the bridge of Austerlitz.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
There is no rectitude whatsoever.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
Spare me your rectitude, Lord Snow, I have strength enough without you.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
A diagnosis of latent insanity at the time of the murders, for instance however, the utmost caution and rectitude must be observed.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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