The Only Use
probity
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become at once if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic or casually associate.†
p. 217.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(probity) complete honesty and strong moral integrity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)