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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section IV. Moral Affections |
| 3. Moral Conditions |
| 939. Probity. |
| NOUN: | PROBITY, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c. adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi [F.], good faith, bona fides [L.]; purity, grace; clean hands. constancy; faithfulness &c. adj.; fidelity, loyalty, incorruption [archaic], incorruptibility; trustworthiness &c. adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity [See Veracity]; tender conscience &c. (sense of duty) [See Duty]. fairness &c. adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle. court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam [L.]. PUNCTILIOUSNESS, punctilio, delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c. adj.; scruple; point, - of honor; punctuality [rare in this sense]. dignity (repute) [See Repute]; respectability, respectableness &c. adj.; MAN OF HONOR, man of his word, gentleman, gentilhomme [F.], fidus Achates [L.], preux chevalier [F.], galantuomo [It.]; true-penny, trump [slang], brick [slang or colloq.], true Briton; white man [slang, U. S.]. |
| VERB: | BE HONORABLE &c. adj.; deal -honorably, - squarely, - impartially, - fairly; speak the truth (veracity) [See Veracity]; draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero [L.]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one’s duty (virtue) [See Virtue]; play the game [colloq.]. redeem one’s pledge [See Duty]; keep -, be as good as- one’s -promise, - word; keep faith with, not fail. give and take, audire alteram partem [L.], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse. redound to one’s honor. |
| ADJECTIVE: | UPRIGHT; honest, - as daylight; veracious [See Veracity]; virtuous [See Virtue]; noble, honorable, reputable, respectable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair -, open- and aboveboard; white [slang, U. S.]. inviolable, inviolate, unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed. constant, - as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, - blue, - to one’s colors, - to the core, - as the needle to the pole; “marble-constant” [Antony and Cleopatra]; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one’s word, to be depended on, incorruptible, honest as the day. manly, straightforward (ingenuous) [See Artlessness]; frank, candid, open-hearted. CONSCIENTIOUS, tender-conscienced, right-minded, high-principled, highminded, scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, overscrupulous, correct, punctual. STAINLESS, unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured, uncorrupt, uncorrupted; innocent [See Innocence]; pure, undefiled, undepraved, undebauched; integer vitæ scelerisque purus [Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Horace]; supramundane, unworldly. chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche [F.]; high-spirited. |
| ADVERB: | HONORABLY &c. adj.; bonâ fide [L.]; on the square [colloq.], in good faith, in all honor, by fair means, foro conscientiæ [L.], with clean hands. |
| INTERJECTION: | on my honor! honor bright! [colloq.]; by my faith! |
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