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moral integrityMore 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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