uprightness

Definition

The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.

Etymology

From upright + -ness.

Example Sentences

• "You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis"
• "[S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]"
• "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."