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; see per1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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