Rectitude

Definition: Rectitude

Rectitude

Noun

1. Uprightness as a consequence of being honorable and honest.

Date "rectitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Rectitude

Synonym: uprightness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Guilt	Noun: guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude; (improbity); sinfulness; (vice).
Improbity	Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal.
Probity	Noun: probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness; Adjective: honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi, good faith, bona fides; purity, clean hands.
Virtue	Noun: virtue; virtuousness; Adjective: morality; moral rectitude; integrity; (probity); nobleness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Rectitude

English words defined with "rectitude": Equity of redemption ♦ Improbity ♦ justice of the peace ♦ Obliquation ♦ To lead astray. (references)

Specialty definitions using "rectitude": Hood ♦ Sea Foam, Secret Order. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Rectitude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (erectness, propriety, rectitude, sanity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I invented moral fibre! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers! (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)
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Domain	Title
Books	Power, Corruption, and Rectitude (reference) Rectitude (reference) Rectitude of Life: See the World in an Atom (reference) Sex, Rectitude & Loneliness (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Virgil	A mind aware of its own rectitude.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But what reason can hence advance this care of the parents due to their off-spring into an absolute arbitrary dominion of the father, whose power reaches no farther, than by such a discipline, as he finds most effectual, to give such strength and health to their bodies, such vigour and rectitude to their minds, as may best fit his children to be most useful to themselves and others; and, if it be necessary to his condition, to make them work, when they are able, for their own subsistence. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Declaration of Independence	1776	We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	IRELAND	However, because of increased fiscal rectitude since the late 1980s, Ireland is the only EU Member State to have a lower Debt/GDP ratio in 1997 than it had in 1991. (references)
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"Rectitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rectitude" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	71	39,674

Expressions using "rectitude": deviation from rectitude ♦ moral rectitude. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "rectitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndershmëri (fair dealing, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, probity, righteousness, scrupulosity, straightforwardness, truth, virtue), moral i lartë, korrektësi (correctness, scrupulosity, sportsmanship), drejtësi (equity, fairness, judiciary, justice, justness, law, moderation, propriety, regularity, righteousness, rightness, well doing). (various references)

Arabic		‏سداد لحكم, ‏سداد الرأي, ‏السداد, ‏إستقامة (bluntness, consistency, honesty, integrity, justice, probity, propriety, righteousness, sanity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, virtue). (various references)

Bulgarian		справедливост (equity, fair dealing, fairness, justice, justness, right, rightness), честност (fair dealing, fairness, faith, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, loyalty, probity, sportsmanship, straightforwardness, straightness, truth), висока нравственост, правота (justness, rightness, trueness). (various references)

Farsi		صحت عمل , صحت (Accuracy, Authenticity, Precision, Veracity, Verity), راستی (Indeed, Integrity, Probity, Really, Sooth, Troth, Truth, Veracity, Verity), راستگری (Rectification), درستی (Accuracy, Honesty, Integrity, Justice, Legitimacy, Precision, Truth), درستکاری (Honesty). (various references)

Finnish		rehtiys (uprightness). (various references)

French		rectitude. (various references)

German		geradheit (candidness, directness, erectness, frankness, straightness, uprightness). (various references)

Greek		εντιμότητα (squareness, straightforwardness), ευθύτησ (squareness, straightforwardness, uprightness). (various references)

Hebrew		יושר (equity, honesty, integrity, probity, righteousness, sincerity, straight, straightness, virtue), �"�'י� ות (decency, decorum, equity, fairness, honesty, morality, plain dealing, propriety, respectability, seemliness, sincerity, squareness, worthiness). (various references)

Hungarian		egyenesség (directness, frankness, sincerity, squareness, straight, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), becsületesség (fairness, four-square, frankness, honesty, honor, integrity, probity, squareness, trustworthiness). (various references)

Italian		rettitudine (straightforwardness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		方正 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうせい (laws, legislation, roar of cannon, sewing, sound of a gun, verbal message). (various references)

Pig Latin		ectituderay

Portuguese		retidão (accuracy, honesty, integrity, justice, righteousness, virtue), probidade (fair-faced, honesty, probity, righteousness), justiça (att, fairway, justice, right, righteousness, sword), integridade de caráter (problem), imparcialidade (candor, candour, impartible, indifference), equidade (equity control, fairness, justice, right). (various references)

Romanian		sinceritate (bluntness, candidness, candor, candour, directness, fairness, faith, frankness, genuineness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, roundness, sincerity, truth, unreserve), corectitudine (correctness, honesty, precision, rightness, sportsmanship, straight). (various references)

Russian		справедливость (equity, fairness, impartiality, justice, justness, reason, right, righteousness, rightness), честность (fair dealing, fair play, fairness, honesty, probity, scrupulosity, straight dealing), нравственность (moral), прямота (bluntness, candor, candour, directness, integrity, openness, plain dealing, straight, straightforwardness, uprightness), правота (rightwards). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskrenost (candidness, candor, candour, fair dealing, frankness, genuineness, heartiness, sincerity, straightforwardness), čestitost. (various references)

Spanish		rectitud (correctness, fairness, honesty, integrity, rightness, straightness). (various references)

Swedish		rättskaffenhet (honesty, justice). (various references)

Turkish		doğruluk (accuracy, authenticity, candor, candour, correctitude, correctness, directness, evenness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, integrity, justice, justness, preciseness, precision, prig, probity, right, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trueness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, validity, veracity, Verity), dürüstlük (conscientiousness, correctitude, correctness, directness, erectness, evenness, fairness, faithfulness, honesty, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, probity, righteousness, sincereness, sincerity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, truth, uprightness, veracity). (various references)

Ukranian		чесність (fair dealing, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, probity, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), правота (right, rightness). (various references)

Vietnamese		thái độ đúng đắn, tính ngay thẳng (candidness, candour, fairness, simple-heartedness), tính chính trực (integrity, uprightness). (various references)

Welsh		uniondeb (straightness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	rectus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	rectitudo. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "rectitude": rectitudes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "rectitude": correctitude. (additional references)
	Words containing "rectitude": correctitudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rectitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recitude, rectetude, Rectitudo, rectitutde, rectiude, Restitude. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rectitude" (pronounced re"ktutuw'd)
6	-k t u t uw' d	exactitude.
5	-t u t uw' d	altitude, aptitude, attitude, certitude, fortitude, gratitude, ineptitude, latitude, multitude, platitude.
4	-u t uw' d	amplitude, longitude, magnitude, servitude, solicitude, solitude, turpitude, verisimilitude.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: certitude.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: curetted, deuteric.
	-2 letters: curette, eructed, erudite, eucrite, recited, tierced, uttered.
	-3 letters: cerite, credit, curite, cutter, deceit, deicer, detect, dieter, direct, recite, reduce, reedit, retied, retted, rutted, tercet, tierce, tiered, triced, truced, ureide, uretic.
	-4 letters: ceder, cered, cider, cited, citer, creed, cried, crude, cruet, cured, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, deice, deter, deuce, dicer, edict, educe, educt, eider, erect, eruct, etude, recti, recut, retie, riced, terce, tired, titer, titre, treed, trice, tried, trite, truce, trued, tutee, ureic, uteri, utter.
	-5 letters: cede, cedi, cere, cete, cire, cite, crud, cued, curd, cure, curt, cute, deer, deet, dere, dice, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dree, duce, duci, duct, duet, duit, dure, ecru, edit, eide, etic, etui, iced, ired, rede, reed, rete, rice, ride, rite, rude, rued, teed, tide, tied, tier, tire, tree, tret, true, turd, uric.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: certitudes, rectitudes.
	+2 letters: destructive, incertitude, reticulated.
	+3 letters: correctitude, destructible, incertitudes, recultivated, resuscitated, unrestricted.
	+4 letters: correctitudes, counterfeited, destructively, rearticulated, recapitulated, reconstituted, trinucleotide.
	+5 letters: counterpointed, counterstained, deconstructive, hypereutectoid, indestructible, multielectrode, nondestructive, trinucleotides.
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