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ˈuprightness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state or condition of being sincere, honest, or just; equity or justness in respect of principle or practice; upright quality or conduct; moral integrity or rectitude.
1541Elyot Image Gov. xii. 22 He loued syncerytie, vulgarly called vprightnesse. 1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 11 §2 Any..Subjectes using upryghtnes and trueth in the barrelling of such Fishe. 1591Savile Tacitus, Agricola 242 Agricola..caryed himselfe easily with great vprightnes and iustice. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 1553 They of my uprightnesse judge amisse. 1668Owen Indwelling Sin vi. 72 Accordingly his design is to walk before God, and his frame is sincerity and uprightness therein. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. 92 Those who preserve their Uprightness..raise themselves to a more secure State of Virtue. 1766T. Amory Buncle (1770) III. 210 A canted uprightness and seeming piety. 1820Shelley Liberty vii, Many a deed of terrible uprightness By thy sweet love was sanctified. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 60 Veracity, uprightness, and manly boldness were then, as now, qualities eminently English. 1879R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 72 The Sage..maintains a perfect uprightness and pursues the heavenly way without the slightest deflection.
b. Const. of (conduct, etc.).
1560Bible 1 Kings iii. 6 He walked..in vprightnes of heart with thee. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 22 Modestie of life and uprightnesse of manners. 1592Chettle Kind-harts Dr. A 4, Diuers of worship haue reported his vprightnes of dealing. 1644Milton Divorce (ed. 2) ii. iv, The uprightnesse of his ways. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 152 Cleared by the Uprightnesse of his own Intention. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. Ded., The uprightness of my intentions as to the information here given. 1795Gentl. Mag. 543/1 Integrity of heart and uprightness of intention. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr., etc. II. 393 [He] was distinguished by..great uprightness of conduct.
2. The state or character of being erect, vertical, or upright; erect or vertical attitude; erectness.
1645Waller To Chloris Poems 180 So the fayre tree..In stormes from that uprightnesse swerves. 1706Stevens Span. Dict., Derechura, straightness, uprightness. 1782V. Knox Ess. lxxix. (1819) II. 114 The uprightness of the pilaster. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion vi, Mrs. Croft..had a squareness, uprightness, and vigour of form. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xix. (1856) 143 The poor things had lost their uprightness. 1889Pall Mall G. 9 Mar. 7/1 The rigid uprightness of his collars. |