rectitude Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈrek.tɪ.tʃuːd]
  • Us [ ˈrek.tə.tuːd]

Meaning of rectitude In English

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  • The markets took this as a reassuring sign of the government's fiscal rectitude.

  • The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.

  • Their touchstone was legal and financial rectitude rather than any wider 'service to the community'.

  • The representational rectitude, as it were, of the passage has to do with critical competence, with the use of right-sounding language.

  • In doing so, it problematizes both its own suggestiveness and the 'moral rectitude' of its tragic ending.

  • No, but they needed to be made aware that its pretence to scientific rectitude was a sham.

  • When rendering a verdict, he adopts a posture of rectitude and knowledge.

  • In this reconciliation, the rite is construed as a paradigmatic situation that seeks divine rectitude through the drama of conversion.

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