| 词汇 | rectitude |
| 释义 | rectitude noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈrek.tɪ.tʃuːd/ us /ˈrek.tə.tuːd/ honesty and correct moral behaviour: 公正;正直;诚实 An austere man of unquestioned moral rectitude, Nava inspired deep devotion in those who worked for him.纳瓦的简朴作风和正直品行有口皆碑，使得员工们对其忠心耿耿。 Synonym uprightnessapproving Honesty, openness & sincerity above board anti-corruption artless artlessly artlessness earnest honestly in in all honesty/seriousness/truthfulnessidiom in good faithidiom integrity joking apart/asideidiom sincerely stainless straight arrowidiom straight upidiom straightforward the straight and narrowidiom transparency upright Examples of rectituderectitude 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. It maintained a vigilant attitude toward lapses in moral rectitude on the part of both teachers and students. These characteristics owed much to an inner conviction that drew on a strong personal piety, and a clear sense of morality; a conviction inclined to rectitude, not subtlety. For the sake of decorum and propriety, our passions live behind a mask of reason and rectitude, our lives being lived according to that which is pre-destined for us. Yet when a "scion of this family, in an unguarded moment," had stepped from "the paths of rectitude," he had started a line of mental defectives. Displaying rectitude to these central departments, even if at the cost of one's minister's reputation, may improve the standing of both an individual and (in the long term) a department. Cicero, although his practice could be scurrilous, his jokes scandalous, his timing split-second, made his appeals ultimately to ponderous tradition and the maintenance of a position of moral rectitude. They suffer from a kind of unctuous rectitude which is disliked by foreigners and their overseas kinsmen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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