“probity”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

probity

释义

probity|ˈprɒbɪtɪ|
[ad. L. probitās, -ātem goodness, honesty, modesty, f. prob-us good, honest: see -ity. So. F. probité (1570 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Moral excellence, integrity, rectitude, uprightness; conscientiousness, honesty, sincerity.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 23 What is..more repugnynge to faythe & probyte?1570Levins Manip. 110/20 Probitie, probitas, atis.1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §129 Of much reputation for probity and integrity of life.1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 548 Probity and superstition, or even probity and fanaticism are not..incompatible.1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 75 'Tis not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling.1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 603 The Governor,..a man of strict probity.

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