[Cf. UPRIGHT a. and RIGHTEOUSNESS.] The quality of being upright.
1549. Latimer, 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 110. The vpryghteousnes of hys cause.
1550. Thomas, Ital. Dict., Dirittura, vprightwisenesse.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., x. 349. Not only lufit he vprychteousnes, Bot als he hatit vice.
1623. Cockeram, II. Vprighteousnes, Sinceritie.
1904. Daily News, 26 Aug., 6. Respectability and conscious uprighteousness oozing from his every pore.
