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correctitude

[ kuh-rek-ti-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. correctness, especially of manners and conduct.


correctitude

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noun

  1. the quality of correctness, esp conscious correctness in behaviour
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of correctitude1

First recorded in 1890–95; blend of correct and rectitude
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Friends and colleagues describe him as modest yet tenacious, with an mix of shyness and ambition, inscrutability, correctitude and warmth.

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Fathers, after all, are brave, strong and filled with correctitude.

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One more thought: No institution called the American Repertory Theater should be party to censorship -- whether revising a classic into political correctitude or making critics the enemy.

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The gentleness of the speaker averted the storm of indignation and contempt which similar expressions of the correctitudes had more than once excited in this rebellious young lady.

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I had seen, for the first time in my life, a churchwarden in Somerset, a local cheesemonger of appalling correctitude.

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