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rectitude🔊

Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.

(now rare) The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement.

💬 Quotations
A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.

Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.

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