Uprightness

/ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of being honest, honourable, and moral..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.
2. (uncountable) The state of being erect or vertical.
3. (countable) The product or result of being upright.

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.

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• uprightnesses

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