uprightness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being honest, honourable, and moral. uncountable
    — You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
  2. The state of being erect or vertical. uncountable
    — It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
  3. The product or result of being upright. countable

词形变化

uprightnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English upright
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English uprightness
From upright + -ness.
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