| 单词 | rectitudinarian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˌrectitudiˈnarian ˌrectitudiˈnarian n. rare a strictly moral person.In quot. 1671 spec.: a person who practises or advocates strict conduct in matters of religion (cf. latitudinarian n.). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [noun] > righteous person righteouseOE rightfula1400 good livera1450 well-doer1491 rectitudinarian1671 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 308 I heartily pray the Lord, to make all of you, indeed, rectitudinarians. 1802 Crisis Sugar Colonies iv. 170 The condemnation of this traffic [sc. the slave trade] therefore as a voluntary branch of commerce, was not merely the act of a majority, composed of rigid rectitudinarians. 1935 in F. E. Rusch & D. Pizer Theodore Dreiser: Interviews (2004) 282 The rectitudinarians of Kentucky amused him. < as lemmas |
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