rectitude

• n. 公平さ、正直さ、誠実さ

rect-、まっすぐな、正しい、-itude、名詞の接尾辞。rectitudeから派生。

rectitude (n.)

early 15c., "quality of being straight," from Middle French rectitude (14c.), from Late Latin rectitudinem (nominative rectitudo) "straightness, uprightness," from Latin rectus "straight" (see right (adj.1)). Sense of "upright in conduct or character" is from 1530s.

1. Alexander is a man of unquestioned moral rectitude .

アレクサンダーは品行方正で汚れのない人だ。

2.I am sure she is a paragon of rectitude .

彼女は正直で完璧な人だと確信できます。

3.She was indignant with his presumption and self-satisfaction and conscious rectitude .

彼女は彼の傲慢さと独善を怒った。

4.He exuded a rectitude so matter-of-fact that he never needed to appeal to it.

彼の仕事は公正で、事実に基づいて真実を求めて、本性はこのようで、申し立てる必要はありません。

5.The only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

過去を追憶する時、唯一の盾は彼の行為が正直で誠実である。