RECTITUDE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for RECTITUDE, such as:
1. The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude.
2. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to the bridge of Austerlitz.
2. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to the bridge of Austerlitz.
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Meanings and Examples of RECTITUDE
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rectitude
n. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
Classic Sentence:
1 Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to the bridge of Austerlitz.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
2 He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness and rectitude than ever.
3 He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.
4 Your Highness, it is impossible to return a definite answer to those two questions: and the more so because many rascals are at heart men of rectitude.
Example Sentence:
1 The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude.
2 He showers praise on his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, as the man who has repositioned Labour as a party of fiscal rectitude and comes close to anointing him chancellor if Labour wins on 7 May.