Rectitude
Straightness.
Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
Right judgment.
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Rectitude Quotations
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
Herbert Read
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
Origen
I love the idea of rectitude.
Rob Morrow
Rectitude Translations
rectitude in French is rectitude
rectitude in German is Geradheit
rectitude in Spanish is rectitud
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