Rĕc'ti-tūde, n.

(30), n. [Fr. rectitude, Pr. rectetut, Sp. rectitud, It. rettitudine, Lat. rectitudo, from rectus, right, straight.]

1. Straightness. [Rare.] Johnson.
2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.

There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude . . . in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming. J. Hawes. Syn.—See JUSTICE.