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Word Meanings - UPRIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. All have their ears upright. Spenser. 2. Morally erect;

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1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. All have their ears upright. Spenser. 2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. And that man was perfect and upright. Job i. 1. 3. Conformable to moral rectitude. Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure. J. M. Mason. 4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. " He lay upright." Chaucer. Upright drill , a drilling machine having the spindle vertical. Note: This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible.

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    Straight; direct.
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    In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
  • CLEANSABLE
    Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
  • CLEAN-CUT
    See CLEAR-CUT
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    In a clear manner.
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    Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
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    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
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    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
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    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
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    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
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    1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
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    the quality or state of being upright.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
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    1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
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    Not proportionate.
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    See I
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    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
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    In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
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    Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.

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