16 Verbs to Use for the Word rectitude

Man is much less useful and happy in this world than he would be, if more pains were taken by parents and teachers, as well as by himself, to cultivate his senseshearing, seeing, feeling; tasting, and smellingand to preserve their rectitude.

They do not use it as an unerring line, to ascertain their own rectitude, or detect their own obliquities.

I also would have told him too, Birds act by instinct, and ne'er can Attain the rectitude of man.

Act, then, with that modest freedom, that dignified unreserve, which bespeak conscious rectitude and sincerity of heart.

He was a rectangular person whom nothing could budge, and his very rectangularity bespoke his stubborn rectitude.

He supposed that all men are born equally good, but that the temptations of the world at length destroy the original rectitude.

We are become calm, slow, strong; so we measure rectitudes and regard essentials, my oak and I. I would be a hard person to dislodge or uproot from this spot of earth.

a doubt, neverthelessof the absolute rectitude of his conduct; and after a moment's hesitation he hurriedly counted the moneyit was in bills of small denominationsand found it to be about two hundred and fifty dollars.

And a casual observer would have noticed about him a certain rectitude of bearing, a certain erectness of head that marks the man who thinks well of himself.

Though she was inadvertently drawn into that dishonorable mode of life which has stained her character, and given her a place among the criminals noticed in this work, yet she possessed a rectitude of principle and of conduct, far superior to many who have not been exposed to such temptations to swerve from the path of female virtue and honor.

Says one of the latter: "In Sappho, a warm and profound sensibility, virgin purity, feminine softness, and delicacy of sentiment and feeling, were combined with the native probity and simplicity of the Eolian character; and, although endued with a fine perception of the beautiful and brilliant, she preferred genuine conscious rectitude to every other source of human enjoyment."

A born Radical, he was liable to push matters beyond what more conservative minds deemed wise, and it is possible that in some instances his extreme methods defeated his purpose, but even then, no one questioned the rectitude of his heart.

"My dear Mary, do you thinkleaving my rectitude asidethat I'd have referred you to Rodney Aldrich if I'd felt that there was anything questionable about it?"

" Now it was Laughing Bill's experience that honesty needs no boosting, and that he who most loudly vaunts his rectitude is he who is least certain of it.

The Athenians thought that the very gods must admire the rectitude of Phocion and Aristides; and those gentlemen themselves were apparently of much the same opinion.

The absolute control of my will and conscience, won by her perfect purity and unfailing rectitude, outlasted Eveena's life.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  rectitude