UPRIGHTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uprightness mean? 

• UPRIGHTNESS (noun)
  The noun UPRIGHTNESS has 3 senses:

1. the property of being upright in posture

2. position at right angles to the horizon

3. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

  Familiarity information: UPRIGHTNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPRIGHTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being upright in posture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness

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

stance (standing posture)

Derivation:

upright (upright in position or posture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Position at right angles to the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

erectness; uprightness; verticality; verticalness

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

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Derivation:

upright (in a vertical position; not sloping)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

rectitude; uprightness

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

righteousness (adhering to moral principles)

Derivation:

upright (of moral excellence)

 Context examples 

Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness, and vigour of form, which gave importance to her person.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His daughters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable alliances; and the character of Edmund, his strong good sense and uprightness of mind, bid most fairly for utility, honour, and happiness to himself and all his connexions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Anne thought she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the house; and Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures of admiration and delight on the character of the navy; their friendliness, their brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness; protesting that she was convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in England; that they only knew how to live, and they only deserved to be respected and loved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)