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Definition: Probity |
ProbityNoun1. Complete and confirmed integrity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "probity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonym: ProbitySynonym: honesty. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
Probity | Noun: probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness; Adjective: honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi, good faith, bona fides; purity, clean hands. |
Veracity | Noun: veracity; truthfulness, frankness; Adjective: truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness; (artlessness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Probity |
| English words defined with "probity": call into question ♦ Improbity, incorruption, incorruptness ♦ Lunaria biennis ♦ oppugn ♦ question. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | No qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert is an estimable man, who does honour to inferior but important functions, by his rigorous and strict probity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Syria | Beginning in mid-1998, newspaper accounts of misappropriation of public funds and lack of probity among public officials began appearing with increasing frequency, and some officials were jailed for apparent corruption, or placed under investigation for abuse of power. (references) |
Norway | It should be noted that Norway regularly ranks among the most ethical countries in the world according to Amnesty International, and is known world wide for its public probity. (references) | |
Honduras | Other government institutions charged with combating corruption include the Comptroller General's Office, the Office of Administrative Probity, the Solicitor General's Office (Procurador General de la Republica - representing the government) and the Supreme Court's Office of Tribunals' Inspector General. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Probity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Probity" is used about 64 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% | 64 | 42,009 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
probity | 10 |
intl.com probity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "probity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndershmëri (fair dealing, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, rectitude, righteousness, scrupulosity, straightforwardness, truth, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزاهة (disinterest, dispassion, impartiality, integrity, plain dealing, squareness), صدق (accept, approve, assent, attest, believe, certify, confirm, credit, genuineness, hold good, make believe, notarize, ok, okay, okey, ratify, sanction, sincerity, trueness, trustiness, truth, validity, veracity, verity), إستقامة (bluntness, consistency, honesty, integrity, justice, propriety, rectitude, righteousness, sanity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, virtue), أمانة (honesty, integrity, sincerity, trueness, trusteeship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | честност (fair dealing, fairness, faith, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, loyalty, rectitude, sportsmanship, straightforwardness, straightness, truth), неподкупност (incorruptibility), порядъчност (decency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 诚实 (honest, honestness, honesty, truthfulness, Veracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Stichting Beroepsmoraal en Misdaadpreventie (Professional Probity and Crime Prevention Organisation), Bureau bevordering integriteitsbeoordelingen door het openbaar bestuur (Public Administration Probity Screening Agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیروی دقیق ازاصول , پاکدامنی (Chastity, Purity, Sacrosanctity, Virtue), راستی (Indeed, Integrity, Really, Rectitude, Sooth, Troth, Truth, Veracity, Verity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | probité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | redlichkeit (honesty, loyalness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρηστότησ (virtuousness), χρηστότητα (virtuousness), ευθύτητα (candor, candour, fairness, frankness, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), ακεραιότησ (integrity, uprightness), ακεραιότητα (integrity, rectitude, uprightness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יושר (equity, honesty, integrity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, straight, straightness, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feddhetetlenség (impeccability, integrity), becsületesség (fairness, four-square, frankness, honesty, honor, integrity, rectitude, squareness, trustworthiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | probit (integrity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynrickys (correctness, directness, downrightness, faith, faithfulness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, integration, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, truth, truthfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obitypray probidade (fairdealing, honesty, rectitude, righteousness), integridade de caráter (rectitude), honradez (integrity, righteousness), honorabilidade (respectability). (various references) probitate (honesty, uprightness), onestitate (genuineness, honesty, integrity, truth), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue). (various references) честность (fair dealing, fair play, fairness, honesty, rectitude, scrupulosity, straight dealing). (various references) poštenost, ispravnost (correctness). (various references) probidad (loyalness). (various references) namusluluk (chastity, uprightness), doğruluk (accuracy, authenticity, candor, candour, correctitude, correctness, directness, evenness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, integrity, justice, justness, preciseness, precision, prig, rectitude, 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, rectitude, righteousness, sincereness, sincerity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, truth, uprightness, veracity). (various references) чесність (fair dealing, faithfulness, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), непідкупність (incorruptibility). (various references) tính trung thực (sportiness, sportsmanship, squareness), tính thẳng thắn (directness, downrightness, fairness, frankness, sportiness, sportsmanship, straightforwardness), tính liêm khiết (incorruptibility, incorruptibleness, uprightness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | probitas, sanctitudo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Probity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brobity, porbity, Primity, Probart, probat, probati, proberty, probily, probit, procity, propitie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "probity" (pronounced prō"butē) |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: probit. | |
-2 letters: borty, orbit. | |
-3 letters: bort, brio, brit, obit, orby, pity, port, riot, ropy, roti, ryot, tiro, toby, topi, tori, tory, trio, trip, trop, troy, typo, tyro. | |
-4 letters: bio, bit, bop, bot, boy, bro, obi, opt, orb, ort, pit, poi, pot, pro, pry, rib, rip, rob, rot, tip, top, tor, toy, try, yip, yob. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: bipolarity, bryophytic, profitably. | |
+4 letters: corruptibly, hyperbolist, operability, portability, probability, prohibitory. | |
+5 letters: absorptivity, hyperbolists, probationary, unprofitably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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