Hypertext Webster Gateway: "integrity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

integrity
n 1: an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: {unity},
{wholeness}]
2: moral soundness


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