probity
[proh-bi-tee, prob-i-]
- integrity and uprightness; honesty.
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Origin of probity
Synonyms
See more synonyms for probity on Thesaurus.comrectitude.
Antonyms
dishonesty.
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Contemporary Examples
Nodding agreement, the other official dubbed the burst of probity around tax cuts “a newfound religion” for the GOP.
But it clearly would have cast those shadows over the question of her general judgment and probity.
Historical Examples
Yet once on the trail, so to speak, he is probity personified.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
To men of your intelligence and probity, these admonitions are, perhaps, unnecessary.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
The faithful driver, who had given such proofs of probity, continued to be of great service, and was put in perpetual requisition.
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, CompleteMadame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
He was touched by this easy and, as it were, natural display of probity.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
I went to the comptroller, and trusting in his probity I explained my scheme to him.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
probity
- confirmed integrity; uprightness
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin probitās honesty, from probus virtuous
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Word Origin and History for probity
n.
early 15c., from Middle French probité, from Latin probitatem (nominative probitas) "uprightness, honesty," from probus "worthy, good" (see prove).
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