probity

n.

Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness: “He was a gentlemanly Georgian, a person of early American probity” (Mary McGrory).

[Middle English probite, from Old French, from Latin probitās, from probus, upright, good.]

Salman Rushdie, writing in The New York Times, harshly criticized the ruthlessness of Muslim law as it relates to women and the cravenness of the legal systems in India and Pakistan in capitulating to it:

"In honor-and-shame cultures like those of India and Pakistan, male honor resides in the sexual probity of women, and the 'shaming' of women dishonors all men."

Link: India and Pakistan's Code of Dishonor

Posted July 11, 2005.

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noun

The quality or state of being morally sound: good, goodness, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness. See right/wrong.

n

Definition: fairness, honesty
Antonyms: deceit, dishonesty, unfairness, untrustworthiness

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IN BRIEF: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.

The mayor was known for her probity especially after the extended court case involving fair use of election funds.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - retskaffenhed, retsindighed, redelighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
rechtschapenheid

Français (French)
n. - probité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Rechtschaffenheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ακεραιότητα, εντιμότητα

Italiano (Italian)
rettitudine, onestà, dirittura morale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - probidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
честность

Español (Spanish)
n. - probidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - redlighet, rättskaffenhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
诚实, 正直, 廉洁

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 誠實, 正直, 廉潔

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정직, 성실

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 誠実, 正直

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نزاهه, استقامه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שלמות, תום, הגינות, יושר‬

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