The wife of Augustus was a model of uprightness and honor; the empress shown us by Tacitus as seeking to bring to pass her own designs in regard to the succession was heartless and unprincipled.
In all regions friendship and uprightness are denounced and reconciliation and regard for truth are despised.
The kingdom of peace, salvation, uprightness and reconciliation is founded in the invisible world, and it will by degrees become manifest and apparent through the power of the Word of God!
Vieuville was a man of uprightness and integrity, who commenced his office as Superintendent of Finance by reducing the exorbitant salaries and pensions of the great officers of state and other nobles.
Speaker after speaker, even in the fiercest debates, went out of his way to pay tribute to Marshall's uprightness and wisdom.
As the tall, slender form of the daughter of Maria Theresa walked in proud uprightness on to the barge, and up the gangway of the Vanguard, she looked the great Queen that she was.
Her beautiful face was certainly anxious, but her healthy cheeks were not blanched, and fear had not robbed her of the uprightness of her carriage.
The following example likewise shows how Melanchthon’s want of uprightness and firmness contributed to raise difficulties and unpleasantness with those in power.
Uprightness is the beauty of integrity; goodness is the loveliness of benevolence.
If the mind is the measure of the man, and if uprightness constitutes the noblest aspect of life, then our advancement in knowledge and in righteousness should appear unto all men.
There is a respect for her in his heart in spite of all, and he knows that there is an uprightness about her which would lead her to insist on plainer living and fewer servants.
But even among those who are the farthest from the truth there are some souls that have preserved a certain uprightness and hearts of a certain elevation for whom we cannot help feeling mingled admiration and pity.
Marcus Porcius Cato, for example, a man of the utmost uprightness and courage, took this view.
He set, for himself, a high standard of uprightness and courage, and cared nothing for what other people thought of him.
I am happy my effigy is to go with that of Wordsworth,[112] for (differing from him in very many points of taste) I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius.
I am sorry, Letty, your own sense of truth and uprightness should not prevent even the passing desire to act such a lie.
And yet, far be it from the people of this country to allow themselves to be deflected, by these unseemly tales, from the straight path of uprightness and truth.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
He that walketh in hisuprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
One sin prepares the way for the commission of another; one step over the edge and boundary of uprightness may lead us down a precipice, and plunge us into a fatal series of crimes.
With his dignity and his composure, his good sense and his indolence, his uprightness and his obstinacy, Ovsyanikov reminded me of the Russian boyars of the times before Peter the Great.
Thus the spirit of fervour, charity and uprightness of morals was exercised in the life of this primitive church of the settlement.
I know the uprightness of your spirit, the strength of your character; and I am going to make to you a serious and painful avowal: Your father has wounded me to the heart, he has lost my esteem and affection.
If the joy of having a son is denied us, or if some unforeseen development should prevent me from carrying on this mission of honor, our cousin Levi, whoseuprightness I well know, will take my place.
First of all he praised, in lofty expression, the uprightness of the king, the undaunted firmness with which hitherto he has conducted himself as a protector of the faith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uprightness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
