Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
RECTITUDE
uprightness, rectitude
(noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rectitude (countable and uncountable, plural rectitudes)
Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. [from 15th c.]
(now rare) The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement. [from 15th c.]
Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue. [from 16th c.]
Synonyms
• (rightness of principle): honesty, integrity, morality
Anagrams
• certitude
Source: Wiktionary
Rec"ti*tude (rk"t*td), n. Etym: [L. rectitudo, fr. rectus right, straight: cf. F. rectitude. See Right.]
1. Straightness. [R.] Johnson.
2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
3. Right judgment. [R.] Sir G. C. Lewis.
Syn.
– See Justice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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