correctitude

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

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noun

correctness, especially of manners and conduct.

Origin of correctitude

First recorded in 1890–95; blend of correct and rectitude

Words Nearby correctitude

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How to use correctitude in a sentence

I had seen, for the first time in my life, a churchwarden in Somerset, a local cheesemonger of appalling correctitude.
The Belovd Vagabond | William J. Locke
Her correctitude was, no doubt, made still more correct by an unemotional disposition.
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron | Francis Henry Gribble
Unfortunately for her success, she had the correctitude to ask Lord Salisbury's permission.
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 | Edward Tyas Cook
The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak.
The War in the Air | Herbert George Wells
Next there followed a few reflections of a correctitude so remarkable that I have no choice but to quote them.
Dead Souls | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

British Dictionary definitions for correctitude

correctitude

/ (kəˈrɛktɪˌtjuːd) /

noun

the quality of correctness, esp conscious correctness in behaviour

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