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uprightnesses

uprightnesses is the plural of uprightness.

Meaning of uprightness

Noun

uprightness (countable and uncountable, plural uprightnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.
    • You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
  2. (uncountable) The state of being erect or vertical.
    • It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119
  3. (countable) The product or result of being upright.

Questions about uprightnesses

What is uprightnesses the plural of?
Uprightnesses is the plural of uprightness.

Words near uprightnesses in the dictionary

  1. uprighteousness
  2. uprighting
  3. uprightish
  4. uprightly
  5. uprightness
  6. uprightnesses
  7. uprights
  8. uprip
  9. upripped
  10. upripping
  11. uprips

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