Rectitude Sentence Examples

The necessity of moral rectitude was itself an incentive.

He gained a great reputation both for rectitude and vigour.

His clear, exhaustive and dignified style of treatment evidences the rectitude and nobility of the man.

This extinction is achieved in eight ways, namely rectitude of faith, resolve, speech, action, living, effort, thought, self-concentration.

His engrossing intellectual labours no doubt tended somewhat to harden his character; and in his zeal for rectitude of purpose he forgot the part which affection and sentiment must ever play in the human constitution.

The quality of his work rivalled its quantity, while the disinterestedness and rectitude of his moral character earned him universal respect.

But her last phrase clearly acknowledges that, for her, business rectitude is in itself actually pious.

The rectitude of the motive of a man like Hadhrat Umar is a self-evident fact.

The conception of the good life is that of philosophically ordered rectitude.

There's big ambition, deep resentment, and fiscal rectitude.

Finally, the mystery of holiness is that the rectitude is combined, not stultified, with compassion.

There were times when the Square Mile took almost masochistic delight in the chancellor's heady mixture of fiscal rectitude and socialist largesse.

Moslem teachers have in my presence utterly denied that Allah is subject to an absolute standard of moral rectitude.

Other than some kind of rational assessment, what can one invoke here that is not already indebted to reason for its own rectitude?

Happiness he regards as the only end, conceivable by us,' of divine Providence, but it is a happiness wholly dependent upon rectitude.

The life of a recluse is held to be the most conducive to that state of sweet serenity at which the more ardent disciples aim; but that of a layman, of a believing householder, is held in high honour; and a believer who does not as yet feel himself able or willing to cast off the ties of home or of business, may yet "enter the paths," and by a life of rectitude and kindness ensure for himself a rebirth under more favourable conditions for his growth in holiness.

His life was also happy, for he had pleasure in his work, he loved and was loved by his wife and children; he had a strong constitution, and retained his bodily and mental powers to the last; his faith in the religion of his youth was unshaken to the end; and he lived throughout his long life with the consciousness of rectitude.

In neither case is it presented purely and simply as moral rectitude.

The narrator learns that his intended bride has married another, and he mediates that the path of rectitude is very narrow.

Dennis seeks to shift the focus of the object of evidence law to a point beyond the determination of factual rectitude.

Charlie McCreevy's on his way to Brussels because his financial rectitude might prove an electoral embarrassment.

One such gesture was personally administering communion to Pinochet in acknowledgment of his complete religious rectitude.

From the chaplain and his mistress and her damsels he learnt the rudiments of religion, of rectitude and of love, 3 from his master and his squires the elements of military exercise, to cast a spear or dart, to sustain a shield, and to march with the measured tread of a soldier; and from his master and his huntsmen and falconers the " mysteries of the woods and rivers," or in other words the rules and practices of hunting and hawking.

The Golden Age was first created, which without any avenger Spontaneously without law cherished fidelity and rectitude.

What has she given you? he continued hurriedly, evidently no longer trying to show the advantages of peace and discuss its possibility, but only to prove his own rectitude and power and Alexander's errors and duplicity.

Charlie McCreevy 's on his way to Brussels because his financial rectitude might prove an electoral embarrassment.

Kingsley's accusation indeed, in so far as it concerned the Roman clergy generally, was not precisely dealt with; only a passing sentence, in an appendix on lying and equivocation, maintained that English Catholic priests are as truthful as English Catholic laymen; but of the author's own personal rectitude no room for doubt was left.

There 's big ambition, deep resentment, and fiscal rectitude.

In Wedderburn's character ambition banished all rectitude of principle, but the love of money for money's sake was not among his faults.

But it remains true that the contrast with the " righteousness of the scribes and pharisees " has always served to mark the requirement of " inwardness " as a distinctive feature of the Christian code - an inwardness not merely negative, tending to the repression of vicious desires as well as vicious acts, but also involving a positive rectitude of the inner state of the soul.

Again, - just as the Stoics held wisdom to be indispensable to real rectitude of conduct, while at the same time they included under the notion of wisdom a grasp of physical as well as ethical truth, so the similar emphasis laid on inwardness in Christian ethics caused orthodoxy or correctness of religious belief to be regarded as essential to goodness, and heresy as the most fatal of vices, corrupting as it did the very springs of Christian life.

For this reason did Ahuramazda, and the other gods that be, bring aid to me, because I was not hostile, nor a liar, nor a wrongdoer, neither I nor my family, but according to Rectitude (drstam) have I ruled."

By his mildness of temper and unswerving rectitude, he so endeared himself to the English that he was looked upon and desired as the natural successor to Lanfranc, then archbishop of Canterbury.

A rare capacity for tedious work, a dour Catonian rectitude, a passion for truth, pride, irritability at criticism and independence of character, are the marks of Herculano as a man.