rectitudinous

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English

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Etymology

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From rectitude +‎ -in- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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rectitudinous (comparative more rectitudinous, superlative most rectitudinous)

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