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Uprightness

//ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being honest, honourable, and moral. uncountable

    "You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis"

  2. 2
    righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being erect or vertical. uncountable

    "It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested."

  4. 4
    position at right angles to the horizon wordnet
  5. 5
    The product or result of being upright. countable
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  1. 6
    the property of being upright in posture wordnet

Etymology

From upright + -ness.

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