RECTITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rectitude mean? 

• RECTITUDE (noun)
  The noun RECTITUDE has 1 sense:

1. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

  Familiarity information: RECTITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECTITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

rectitude; uprightness

Hypernyms ("rectitude" is a kind of...):

righteousness (adhering to moral principles)

 Context examples 

Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as Bingley had now been gone a week and nothing more was heard of his return.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the Park betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance; whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct toward others made every shew of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)