Both Uses of
rectitude
in
War and Peace
- What has she given you?" he continued hurriedly, evidently no longer trying to show the advantages of peace and discuss its possibility, but only to prove his own rectitude and power and Alexander's errors and duplicity.†
Chpt 9 *
- "You mean to imply that I have nothing to eat out of....On the contrary, I can supply you with everything even if you want to give dinner parties," warmly replied Chichagov, who tried by every word he spoke to prove his own rectitude and therefore imagined Kutuzov to be animated by the same desire.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(rectitude) moral integrity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, rectitude can reference correctness of judgment. or procedure.