What's the difference between integrity and rectitude?

Integrity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
  • (n.) Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
  • (n.) Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (3) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (4) The data on mapping the episomal plasmid integration sites in yeast chromosomes I, III, IV, V, VII, XV are presented.
  • (5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (6) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
  • (7) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (8) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (10) We conclude that neuronal activities in the region of the retrofacial nucleus are important both in the integration of stimuli from the central chemoreceptors and in defining the discharge patterns of respiratory neurons.
  • (11) Only Arteparon had a favorable effect on the integrity of the articular surface.
  • (12) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
  • (13) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
  • (14) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
  • (15) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
  • (16) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (17) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (18) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (19) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (20) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.

Rectitude


Definition:

  • (n.) Straightness.
  • (n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
  • (n.) Right judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (2) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
  • (3) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
  • (4) The use of this therapeutic group follows precise rules: far and near rectitude, normal binocular vision.
  • (5) Once in charge, they believe they are done with such childish things, and can’t conceive of circumstances in which they will be judged – especially when convinced of their own rectitude.
  • (6) But this is a crude morality tale that infers moral rectitude from market success.
  • (7) ‘The only guide to a man is his own conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.’” The church has recently voiced its disquiet over government reforms to the economy and welfare.
  • (8) It was then that we encountered an assortment of reputable commentators in the English broadsheets depart from the norms of rectitude and integrity that characterise their writing.
  • (9) Despite deep cuts, inflicting real hardship, he had to slip two years and delay fiscal rectitude until 2017-18, but to no great outcry.
  • (10) But to the incredulity of his own supporters, the chancellor sticks to the path of fiscal rectitude.
  • (11) Activists reported that the child benefit announcement, designed to demonstrate fiscal rectitude, went down especially badly on the doorstep in the Heywood and Middleton byelection campaign – where Ukip is looking like a potentially serious challenger to Labour next month.
  • (12) After all, this turns out to be the week that the scourge of capitalism John McDonnell lectures on fiscal rectitude, scourge of the lobby Jeremy Corbyn celebrates 32 years of rebellion by leading the party into a new era, and the moon turns red.
  • (13) health, work, generosity rectitude, authority, attractiveness, integrity etc., are, in their evaluation, influenced both by sex and by the hygienic behavior practiced.
  • (14) It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.
  • (15) In cinemas, meanwhile, Captain America: the Winter Soldier – featuring a superhero who rivals Superman for square-jawed rectitude – just set a record for the month of April by scoring $96.2m (£58m) at the domestic box office on its opening weekend.
  • (16) The regulators’ decision to jettison the approach of the past three years of prioritising staffing levels ahead of financial rectitude has been prompted by the NHS’s increasingly frantic efforts to tackle the spiralling deficit which hospitals in England are racking up, projected to be £2.2bn by the end of March.
  • (17) For southern Europe as a whole, the single currency has proved to be a golden cage, forcing greater fiscal and monetary rectitude but removing the exchange rate as a critical cushion against unexpected shocks.
  • (18) There was no reform of the force; indeed political support for it, given personally from Thatcher, seems to have hardened Wright’s sense of rectitude.
  • (19) In case of complete palsies, the objective consists in obtaining primary gaze rectitude.
  • (20) But Labour, too, is hamstrung by its unnecessary fiscal rectitude bill, binding itself to cut the deficit in half in just four years, copying the Tories again.