Integrity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Integrity \In*teg"ri*ty\, n. [L. integritas: cf. F.
     int['e]grit['e]. See {Integer}, and cf. {Entirety}.]
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     1. The state or quality of being entire or complete;
        wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity
        of an empire or territory. --Sir T. More.


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     2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting
        influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to
        the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies,
        trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
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              The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the
              sublimest thing in nature.            --Buckminster.
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              Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth. --Cowper.
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     3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire
        correspondence with an original condition; purity.
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              Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
                                                    --Sir M. Hale.
  
     Syn: Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See {Probity}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  integrity
       n 1: an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: {unity},
             {wholeness}]
       2: moral soundness

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "integrity":
     absoluteness, assured probity, blamelessness, character, cleanness,
     coherence, collectivity, combination, completeness, complex,
     comprehensiveness, decency, differentiation, differentness,
     distinctiveness, egohood, elementarity, embodiment, entireness,
     entirety, erectness, estimableness, exhaustiveness, fairness,
     forthrightness, fullness, fundamentality, fusion, good character,
     goodness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness,
     homogeneity, honesty, honor, honorableness, human factor, identity,
     immaculacy, inclusiveness, incorruptibility, incorruption,
     individualism, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integer,
     integrality, integration, inviolability, irreducibility,
     irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, monism,
     moral excellence, moral strength, morality, nobility, nominalism,
     nonconformity, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularism,
     particularity, perfection, personal equation, personal identity,
     personality, personship, pervasiveness, plainness, plenitude,
     principle, principles, probity, pureness, purity, rectitude,
     reputability, respectability, righteousness, self-identity,
     selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, severity, simpleness, simplicity,
     singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity,
     soul, soundness, stability, stainlessness, starkness,
     straightforwardness, thoroughness, togetherness, totality,
     trustworthiness, ubiquity, unadulteration, undividedness,
     unification, uniformity, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness,
     uniqueness, unity, universality, univocity, unmixedness,
     unsophistication, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness,
     veracity, virtue, virtuousness, whole, wholeness, worthiness