Thesaurus: integrity

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1. n. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
2. n. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
3. n. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
4. n. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
5. n. moral soundness
6. 1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper. 3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale. Syn. -- Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity.
7. n:100 n. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting n. moral soundness