2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Integrity \In*teg"ri*ty\, n. [L. integritas: cf F.
int['e]grit['e]. See {Integer}, and cf {Entirety}.]
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete;
wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as the integrity
of an empire or territory. --Sir T. More
2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting
influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to
the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies,
trusts, and the like uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the
sublimest thing in nature. --Buckminster.
Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. --Cowper.
3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire
correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
--Sir M. Hale.
Syn: Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See {Probity}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
integrity
n 1: an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality [syn: {unity},
{wholeness}]
2: moral soundness
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