rectitude

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Meaning

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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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. David Mamet

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor. Davy Crockett

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. Herbert Read

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. Daniel Hannan

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty. William Ellery Channing

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? Richard Dawkins

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