English Dictionary

uprightness

/ˌʌpˈɹaɪtnəs/

noun

(uncountable) The state of being honest, honourable, and moral. / (uncountable) The state of being erect or vertical. / (countable) The product or result of being upright.

His uprightness is admired by everyone.

意味（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

意味（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, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

意味（3）

(countable) The product or result of being upright.