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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness: "He was a gentlemanly Georgian, a person of early American probity” ( Mary McGrory).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Tried virtue or integrity; strict honesty; virtue; sincerity; high principle.
  2. n. Synonyms Integrity, Uprightness, etc. (see honesty), worth, trustworthiness, trustiness, incorruptibility.

Wiktionary

  1. n. integrity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles

Etymologies

  1. From French probité, from Latin probitas ("uprightness, honesty"), from probus ("good, excellent, honest"); see probe, prove. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English probite, from Old French, from Latin probitās, from probus, upright, good. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “A reputation for probity is vital to exercising influence on the international stage and in conducting business successfully.”

    The Guardian: Britain 'seen as more corrupt since MPs' expenses scandal'

  • “Please, they contend Im a sloppy joe as great as peanut butter sandwich though in probity of this democracy we be a numba a single stunna in this nation my dopes.”

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  • “Conroy had also told an ATUG breakfast whilst a shadow minister that the NBN process would be "open and transparent" - in stark contrast to the 'probity'-protected process that has eventuated.”

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  • “20081110 Three black organisation in probity for attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of Sias Stander, Coligny rustic - mother stabbed twelve times, still shot upheld 4th attacker.”

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  • “As for the so-called probity of private central banks, even their friends understand the problem:”

    The Banksters & Hurricanes Of Interest-Bearing Debt

  • “But when the idea of probity is carried out, so far as to imply a view of things comparatively disparaging to Christian morals, it mounts to an anti-climax, and falls over into the province of nonsense.”

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

  • ““There are certain men in office who, in discharge of their functions, arrogate to themselves a degree of probity, which is to exclude all imputations and all inquiry.”

    Fallacies of Anti-Reformers

  • “His probity is a by-word; his benefactions have enriched the province.”

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA

  • “I have been your dupe; you have neither shame nor regret, nor remorse: you are rotten to the heart; you have never had an honest sentiment; you have not robbed as long as you had enough to satisfy your caprices; that is what is called probity by rich people of your stamp; then followed want of decency, then baseness, crime, and forgery.”

    Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02

  • “I think due to myself, that, if only probity, which is a good thing in its place, brings you back, never return!”

    Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. integrity
  2. honesty
  1. rectitude
  2. uprightness
  1. goodness
  2. honor
  1. saintliness
  2. decency
  1. godliness
  2. virtue

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. wickedness

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. integrity

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. uprightness
  2. impartiality
  3. veracity
  1. sobriety
  2. manliness
  3. integrity
  1. candour
  2. moderation
  3. disinterestedness
  1. conscientiousness
  2. faithfulness
  3. self-restraint
  1. magnanimity
  2. fortitude
  3. sagacity

reverse dictionary (21)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. dishonesty
  2. improbity
  3. incorruptness
  4. honesty
  1. honorable
  2. honorableness
  3. dishonestly
  4. probity
  1. dishonest
  2. true
  3. incorruption
  4. oppugn
  1. question
  2. call into question
  3. credit
  4. crucible
  1. esteem
  2. honor
  3. integrity
  4. prevaricator
  1. virtue

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