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Rectitude
REC'TITUDE, n. [L. rectus, right, straight.]
In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws. Rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being. The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.
There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.
rectitude appears in definitions for these words:
Aberrance Aberration Aside Astray Bribe Correct Correction Correctly Crook Crooked Crookedness Declination Decline Defective Devious Dignity Evil Evolution Fall Honesty Honor Honorable Honorableness Immoral Impeaching Impeachment Improbity Iniquity Internal Irregular Irregularity Just Justice Justiciary Justifiableness Justification Lapse Lead Like Morality Obliquation Obliquity Pattern Pravity Reclaim Rectitude Refine Refinement Right Righteousness Rightfulness Rightly Rightness Seduce Seducer Seducible Sin Soundness Straight Straightness Stray Tranquillity Transgression Transgressor Trespass Upright Uprightly Uprightness Vice Vicious Viciously Wander Wandering Wanton Wrong
Aberrance Aberration Aside Astray Bribe Correct Correction Correctly Crook Crooked Crookedness Declination Decline Defective Devious Dignity Evil Evolution Fall Honesty Honor Honorable Honorableness Immoral Impeaching Impeachment Improbity Iniquity Internal Irregular Irregularity Just Justice Justiciary Justifiableness Justification Lapse Lead Like Morality Obliquation Obliquity Pattern Pravity Reclaim Rectitude Refine Refinement Right Righteousness Rightfulness Rightly Rightness Seduce Seducer Seducible Sin Soundness Straight Straightness Stray Tranquillity Transgression Transgressor Trespass Upright Uprightly Uprightness Vice Vicious Viciously Wander Wandering Wanton Wrong
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