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rectitudinous en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin rēctitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin rēctitūdō, from rēctus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, rectitude + -ous.

Meanings

1. righteous or correct or upright
   • Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room. 2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian:

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