integrity

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  1. noun Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
  2. noun The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
  3. noun The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.

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  • I confined myself to observing: 'Whatever structures and procedures we have in this House, we cannot legislate for integrity, and Members should act in such a manner whereby their integrity is not called into question That, so I hoped, was that, but I was wrong.
  • Data integrity should be the top priority for databases, big or small. —  SitePoint » News & Trends
  • If you want to demonstrate your intellectual integrity, that is. hanshiro Says: —  Think Progress
  • Let me close by turning to the issue of environmental integrity, which is something people use to argue for permits over taxes. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • The loss of vacuolar integrity, which is thought to initiate cell degradative processes in the xylem vessels, is merely one of the last processes to occur before the final autolysis of the remaining cell contents in xylem fibers. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Middle English integrite, from Old French, from Latin integritās, soundness, from integer, whole, complete; see tag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French intégrité = Provencal integritat = Spanish integridad = Portuguese integridade = Italian integrità, from Latin integrita(t-)s, unimpaired condition, wholeness, entireness, purity, innocence, honesty, from integer, untouched, unimpaired, whole: see integer. From Latin integrita(t-)s, through the Old French, comes English entirety, q. v.
 

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