

Oct 28, 2015 This week’s theme

Miscellaneous words



This week’s words

anodyne

salacious

probity

rectitude

emollient

Miscellaneous words A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



probity PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-bi-tee)

MEANING: noun: Integrity and honesty.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin probus (upright, good). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, prow , German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1425.

USAGE:

Tom Lappin; A Pleasing Marriage of Surreal Wit and Wisdom; The Scotsman (Edinburgh, UK); Aug 18, 2003.



See more usage examples of “Mark Steel recalled ... rifling through his grandfather’s text-books for salacious descriptions of murders and adultery. His early trust in the probity of the police and the judiciary was later to be shaken from its foundations, and he offered some robust statements of his disgust that police officers are rarely prosecuted for fabricating or manipulating evidence.”Tom Lappin; A Pleasing Marriage of Surreal Wit and Wisdom;(Edinburgh, UK); Aug 18, 2003.See more usage examples of probity in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. -Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (28 Oct 1466-1536)





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