Definition of Rectitudes

1. rectitude [n] - See also: rectitude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectitudes

rectilineally
rectilinear
rectilinear regression
rectilinearity
rectilinearization
rectilinearly
rectilineous
rectinerved
rection
rections
rectirostral
rectiserial
rectitic
rectitis
rectitude
rectitudes (current term)
rectitudinity
rectitudinous
recto
recto-
rectoabdominal
rectoanal
rectocardiac reflex
rectoceles
rectoclysis
rectococcygeal
rectococcygeal muscle
rectococcygeus muscle
rectococcypexy

Literary usage of Rectitudes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Religious Magazine by Frederic Dan Huntington (1848)
"That is, the Jews did not attend to the divine rectitudes, though so often informed by their prophets, as well as by their moral precepts, ..."

2. Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana which are Contained in the Holy by Emanuel Swedenborg (1857)
"Where justice denotes what is from the good of love, and rectitudes what is from the truths of faith. Again, " Thus saith Jehovah ..."

3. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"... shoulders " Mr. Moore proves her " natural powerlessness to do aught but live up to the practical rectitudes of life, as she conceived them to exist"; ..."

4. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"III. l I. PURIST. sunbeam, sank into sweet rectitudes and decent formalisms; and, before eyes that refused to be dazzled or darkened, the hours of sunset ..."

5. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"If, therefore, an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral rectitudes' of the NOTES. 19, 20 m " Blind, in darkness, foolish, babes," were appellations which the ..."

6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... this Squire Western is a hot Hohenzollern, and wears a crown royal;—conceive such a burly ne-plus-ultra of a Squire, with his broad-based rectitudes and ..."

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