s to his
fellow men, _probity_ being to _honesty_ much what _virtue_ in some
respects is to _goodness_; _probity_ is _honesty_ tried and proved,
especially in those things that are beyond the reach of legal
requirement; above the commercial sense, _honesty_ may be applied to the
highest truthfulness of the soul to and with itself and its Maker.
_Integrity_, in the full sense, is moral wholeness without a flaw; when
used, as it often is, of contracts and dealings, it has reference to
inherent character and principle, and denotes much more than superficial
or conventional _honesty_. _Honor_ is a lofty _honesty_ that scorns
fraud or wrong as base and unworthy of itself. _Honor_ rises far above
thought of the motto that "_honesty_ is the best policy." _Purity_ is
freedom from all admixture, especially of that which debases; it is
_chastity_ both of heart and life, but of the life because from the
heart. _Duty_, the rendering of what is due to any person or in any
relation, is, in this connection, the fulfilment of moral obligation.
_Rectitude_ and _righteousness_ denote conformity to the standard of
right, whether in heart or act; _righteousness_ is used especially in
the religious sense. _Uprightness_ refers especially to conduct.
_Virtuousness_ is a quality of the soul or of action; in the latter
sense it is the essence of virtuous action. Compare INNOCENT; JUSTICE;
RELIGION.

Antonyms:

evil, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong.

Compare synonyms for SIN.

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WANDER.

Synonyms:

deviate, diverge, go astray, range, rove, swerve,
digress, err, ramble, roam, stray, veer.

To _wander_ (AS. _windan_, wind) is to move in an indefinite or
indeterminate way which may or may not be a departure from a prescribed
way; to _deviate_ (L. _de_, from, and _via_, a way) is to turn from a
prescribed or right way, physically, mentally, or morally, usually in an
unfavorable sense; to _diverge_ (L. _di_, apart, and _vergo_, incline,
tend) is to turn from a course previously followed or that something
else follows, and has no unfavorable implication; to _digress_ (L. _di_,
apart, aside, and _gradior_, step) is used only with reference to
speaking or writing; to _err_ is used of intellectual or moral action,
and of the moral with primary reference to the intellectual, an error
being viewed as in some degree due to ignorance. _Range_, _roam_, and
_rove_ imply the