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integrous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Integr- (the root of integr(ity)) + -ous (adjectival suffix: “full of, characterised by, possessing”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
   • He concluded by writing that ‘Hillsong is the most integrous church in the country, and its leadership is above reproach’. 2007, Tanya Levin, People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life in and Out of Hillsong, Black Inc., →ISBN, pages 266–267, →ISBN:
   • And Smiths of Policie shall invent, To cast new Molds of Government; While vulgar Birds, of weakest wing, Grow stout against the Eagle King, Whose just integrous heart shall prove The Adamant of Subjects love. 1968, Joseph Frank, Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660, University of New Mexico Press, page 221:
   • No doubt hard, no doubt proud, unpleasant in self-esteem, and singularly blind to much of what was going on, and yet such a high-minded and integrous woman, […] 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Macmillan, page 435:

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