different between rectitude vs rectitudinity

English

Etymology

From Middle English rectitude, from Middle French rectitude, from Late Latin rectit?d? (“straightness, uprightness”), from Latin rectus (“straight”), perfect passive participle of reg? (“regulate, guide”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k.t?.tju?d/, /???k.t?.tju?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???k.t?.tu?d/, /???k.t?.tju?d/

Noun

rectitude (countable and uncountable, plural rectitudes)

1. Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. [from 15th c.]
2. (now rare) The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement. [from 15th c.]
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 98:

     A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.

3. Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue. [from 16th c.]
   • 1776 July 4, Thomas Jefferson, et al., United States Declaration of Independence:

     We, therefore, the Repre?entatives of the united States of America, in General Congre?s, A?sembled, 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 the?e Colonies, ?olemnly publi?h and declare, That the?e United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States […]

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rectitude.

Synonyms

• (rightness of principle): honesty, integrity, morality

Translations

References

• rectitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• certitude

French

Etymology

From Late Latin rectit?d? (“straightness, uprightness”), from Latin rectus (“straight”), perfect passive participle of reg? (“regulate, guide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.ti.tyd/
• Homophone: rectitudes
• Hyphenation: rec?ti?tude

Noun

rectitude f (plural rectitudes)

1. rectitude

Derived terms

• rectitude politique

Further reading

• “rectitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• certitude