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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Integritie, n. [ME. integritee (c 1450), -ité, e.m.E. -itie, L. integritas.]
1. Moral integrity.1562-3 Winȝet I. 131/23.
In godly leirning and integritie of life Ib. II. 49/29.
A werray perelous tentatioun … dounled mony fra the integritie of fayth a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxvii. 5.
Schaw thy trewth and thyne integritie c1590 Fowler II. 121/5.
To keip his faith and liue sondlye with integritie 1596 Dalr. I. 110/2.
Frome quhais integritie of lyfe albeit we haue declyned
2. Integral or original condition or meaning.1568 Lyndesay Pref. (S.T.S.) 403.
And seing this famous authour, and his notabill warkis to be sa velanouslie handillit ... and alterat, we haif gane about ... to reduce and bring thame to the natiue integritie and first mening of the wryter1587 Bk. Univ. Kirk II. 723.
The thrids reduced to the first integritie … and no superplus to be made whill the ministers … be sufficiently staiked 1618 Acts IV. 588/1.
Which elne and stowp they … ordaine to remaine … in the same integritie as they are now 1641 Ib. V. 591/2.
To keip the saides wayes and passages in thair bread and integritie 1674 Banff Annals II. 173.
To leive the samen [books] … in als good integritie as they are delyverit to him
