Our people had been so long accustomed to the practice and convenience of having slaves, that very few among them even doubted the propriety and rectitude of it.
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Rectitude
//ˈɹɛk.tə.tuːd//
Synonyms for "rectitude" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
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Related words (39)
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4 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 16 languages.
Basque
1 entries- zuzentasun noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Bulgarian
2 entries- правилност noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- правота noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Catalan
2 entries- rectitud noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rectitud noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Dutch
2 entries- rechtlijnigheid noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rechtlijnigheid noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Finnish
3 entries- rehtiys noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- suoruus noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- vilpittömyys noun (rightness of principle or practice)
French
4 entries- droiture noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rectitude noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rectitude noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rigueur noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Hindi
4 entries- दुरुस्ती noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- नाइकी noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- नायकी noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- पाकबाजी noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Italian
4 entries- dirittura noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- dirittura noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rettitudine noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rettitudine noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Latin
2 entries- rectitūdō noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rectitūdō noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Persian
2 entries- درستکاری noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- نیکوکاری noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Polish
2 entries- prawość noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- prostość noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Portuguese
1 entries- retidão noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Romanian
4 entries- echitate noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rectitudine noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rectitudine noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rigoare noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Russian
3 entries- пра́вильность noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- правота́ noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- прямота́ noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Spanish
3 entries- derechura noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- rectitud noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- rectitud noun (rightness of principle or practice)
Urdu
3 entries- درستی noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
- نیکی noun (rightness of principle or practice)
- پاکبازی noun (straightness; state or quality of having a constant direction)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Here was a man utterly convinced of his own moral rectitude.
Source: tatoeba (10163198)
You're hardly a model of moral rectitude.
Source: tatoeba (12029419)
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.
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