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Integrity : (noun)
1: an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: unity,
wholeness]
2: moral soundness
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Integrity : \In*teg"ri*ty\, n. [L. integritas: cf. F.
int['e]grit['e]. See Integer, and cf. Entirety.]
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete;
wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity
of an empire or territory. --Sir T. More.
2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting
influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to
the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies,
trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the
sublimest thing in nature. --Buckminster.
Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. --Cowper.
3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire
correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
--Sir M. Hale.
Syn: Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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