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The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.

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  • The effective impact upon us of men of honor, rectitude and goodwill is to arouse kindred impulses within us.
  • The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity but by political considerations.
  • The Obama administration's insistence on fiscal rectitude is dictated not by financial necessity, but by political considerations.
  • It surely must have occurred to some Europeans that lectures on fiscal rectitude from the Americans display a modicum of hypocrisy.
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