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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1321/
- Published: 2023-09-11T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-09T18:47:45.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

rectitude (noun):

1: the quality or state of being straight  
2: moral integrity : righteousness  
3: the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rectitude?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Rectitude is a formal word that comes from the Latin adjective rectus, which means both “right” and “straight,” and ultimately from the Latin verb regere, meaning “to lead straight.” Rectitude today typically refers to moral integrity—that is, to “straightness” or “rightness” of character. (An early use referred literally to a straight line, but that sense is now rare.) Rectus has a number of other descendants in English, including rectangle (a closed four-sided figure with four right angles), rectify (“to make right”), rectilinear (“moving in or forming a straight line”), and even rectus itself, a medical term for any one of several straight muscles in the body – rectus femoris and rectus abdominis spring readily to mind.

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