correctitude en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (UK) audio
Etymology
From correct + -itude.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality of being correct
And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"
1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.
1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| correctitudes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |