- 1正直、廉潔（書面，常指公職或財務上的操守）
Probity is complete honesty — not just “I did not lie today,” but a whole way of being that people can trust, especially with money, public office, or the law. You will meet it in formal writing: a person of great probity; financial probity. Nobody says it at the night market. It is a high, slightly old noun. A charming, clever person can still lack probity; the word is about being straight and trustworthy, not about being likeable.
組成From Middle French probité, from Latin probitās (“uprightness, honesty”), from probus (“good, honest”). Related to prove and probe.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
probitynoun/ˈpɹəʊbɪti/
- 1
Integrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; decency and honesty.
- […] they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour […]
- [W]hen the interests or reputation of their own nation come into collision with those of another, they go to the opposite extreme, and forget their usual probity and candour, in the indulgence of spleen, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.
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