\PROH-bi-tee, PROB-i-\
noun
1. integrity and uprightness; honesty.
Quotes
...in Judge Dukinfield we believed that Old Anse had chosen the one man among us with sufficient probity and honor and good sense--that sort of probity and honor which has never had time to become confused and self-doubting with too much learning in the law.
-- William Faulkner, "Smoke," Knight's Gambit, 1949
Origin
Probity came to English in the 1500s and finds its roots in the Latin probus meaning "upright."
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