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pro·bi·ty

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NOUN:

Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness: "He was a gentlemanly Georgian, a person of early American probity" (Mary McGrory).

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English probite, from Old French, from Latin probits, from probus, upright, good; see per¹ in Indo-European roots

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