moral rectitude

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Victory Day, Russia’s most important secular holiday, lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2023

Tutu, a Nobel Peace prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90.

From Reuters • Dec. 30, 2021

And so to the degree that Edward is an … Edwardian … I like him for being extremely, like, well-read and intelligent and piano-playing and concerned about moral rectitude and such.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2020

Dr. Coburn sought to establish himself in Washington as a voice of moral rectitude.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2020

But these noble sons have too much moral rectitude to sell their consciences for clothes or gold.

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware