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erectness|ɪˈrɛktnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being erect; an erect attitude.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 180 One kinde of Locust..stands..in a large erectnesse..by Zoographers called mantis. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. i, Persons [who] ..think not the erectness of man's stature a sufficient distinction of him from Brutes. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 208 The erectness of her mien. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. II. 379 For the use of these, he set up a perpendicular staff, as a standard of erectness. 1862Geo. Eliot Romola i. xv. (1863) III. 263 In the renunciation of her proud erectness, her mental attitude seemed changed.
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1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 164/1 The rightnesse of the angles, is a plain embleme of erectnesse or uprightnesse of mind. 1822Hazlitt Men & Mann., Knowl. World (1852) 142 We should retain something of the erectness and openness of our first unbiassed thoughts. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. ii. 47 A refreshing sense of moral erectness.
†2. Altitude. Obs. rare—1.
1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xiii. 134 The highest sort of them [mountains] pass not in perpendicular erectness 10 furlongs. |