Meanings
comparative more integrous · superlative most integrous
- rareHaving or characterized by integrity.
He concluded by writing that ‘Hillsong is the most integrous church in the country, and its leadership is above reproach’.
2007, Tanya Levin, People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life in and Out of Hillsong, Black Inc., →ISBN, pages 266–267, →ISBN2 more examples
No doubt hard, no doubt proud, unpleasant in self-esteem, and singularly blind to much of what was going on, and yet such a high-minded and integrous woman, […]
1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Macmillan, page 435And Smiths of Policie shall invent, To cast new Molds of Government; While vulgar Birds, of weakest wing, Grow stout against the Eagle King, Whose just integrous heart shall prove The Adamant of Subjects love.
1968, Joseph Frank, Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660, University of New Mexico Press, page 221
Origin
Integr- (the root of integr(ity)) + -ous (adjectival suffix: “full of, characterised by, possessing”).
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