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rectitude (noun) – 1. Moral uprightness; righteousness.
2. The quality or condition of being correct in judgment.
3. The quality of being straight.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : Early 15th century, “quality of being straight,” from Middle French rectitude (14th century), from Late Latin rectitudinem (nominative rectitudo) “straightness, uprightness,” from Latin rectus “straight” (from PIE root *reg- “move in a straight line,” with derivatives meaning “to direct in a straight line”). Sense of “upright in conduct or character” is from 1530s.
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