noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
moral
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Most of them led lives of exemplary moral rectitude .
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Thus the father of the nation was a man of unbending moral rectitude .
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That is the quality that lends Baise-Moi a weird moral rectitude .
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Well, Jimmy was a Southern Baptist and the nation was embarked upon an epoch of fierce moral rectitude .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adelina feels offended that her husband would doubt her loyalty knowing the depth of her love and the rectitude of her character.
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Lord Halifax was a cold fish, a man of steely rectitude , a religious man.
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Most of them led lives of exemplary moral rectitude .
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My father and I were visiting the family of a stern judge who was renowned for his unflinching rectitude and respectability.
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Such rectitude , however, was very much the exception rather than the rule among the great powers.
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There was a moral tone to the school, an assumption of rectitude and honor I swallowed from the very start.