Decorum vs Rectitude - What's the difference?
decorum | rectitude |
(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
* 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
(countable) A convention of social behavior
Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 98:
Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.
* 1776 , , et al.'', ''Declaration of Independence , 4 Jul.:
As nouns the difference between decorum and rectitude
is that decorum is decorum while rectitude is straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.decorum
English
Noun
- It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
rectitude
English
(wikipedia rectitude)Noun
- A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.
- We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.