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Definition of Probities
1. probity [n] - See also: probity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Probities
Literary usage of Probities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"... but that Mr. Buckland is willing to enter M arrangements witli proprietors of
peat to put the «"•"'Í into Operationen their probities. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Stricter man, according to his Formula, to his Credo and his Cant, of probities,
benevolences, pleasures-of-virtue, and such like, lived not in that age. ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"Stricter man, according to his Formula, to his Credo, and his Cant, of probities,
benevolences, pleasures-of-virtue, and such like, lived not in that age. ..."
4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... is not worth all such other probities put together:1 * Office-bearer — the
term in common use in Scotland for the possessor of an office. ..."
5. A Wanderer in Paris by Edward Verrall Lucas (1909)
"Stricter man, according to his Formula, to his Credo and his Cant, of probities,
benevolences, pleasures-of-virtue, and suchlike, lived not in that age. ..."
6. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"... arts, civi reformations and military power, mus possess some abiding internal
virtues am probities quite worthy the attention of » republic such as ours ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"PREPARATIONS and possesses the probities of being pleasant to the taste; easily
borne by the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use. ..."
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