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Uprightness vs Godliness - What's the difference?

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Uprightness is a related term of godliness.


As nouns the difference between uprightness and godliness

is that uprightness is (uncountable) the state of being moral, honest and honourable while godliness is the condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.

uprightness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being moral, honest and honourable.
  • (uncountable) The state of being erect, or vertical.
  • (countable) The result or product of being upright.

    • godliness

    English

    Noun

  • The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
  • * 1562 , The Thirty-Nine Articles , :
    • Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness .
  • * 1604 , Shakespeare, Othello , :
    • Nay, but he prated,
    And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
    Against your honour
    That, with the little godliness I have,
    I did full hard forbear him.

    See also

    * deity