Rectitude vs False - What's the difference?
rectitude | false |
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.:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun rectitude
is straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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.
Quotations
*Synonyms
* (rightness of principle) honesty, integrity, moralityReferences
*Anagrams
* ----false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}