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Subject: Re: Here's one for yuh.

Author:
sarahchia

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Date Posted: 10:26:05 05/15/03 Thu
In reply to: Sam 's message, "Re: Here's one for yuh." on 22:13:07 05/14/03 Wed

>>Honest to Dog, Sam, I had the exact same problem two
>>days ago. Perhaps the adjective form of integrity
>
>I love you, Carolyn. :)
>
>>does not exist. Between you, me, and Sarah--all
>>intelligent, people, we should know this word, if it
>>existed. I searched every bit of my vocabulator, and
>>couldn't come up with anything. I like "integriness"
>>but that's also a noun. What about "integrilous"?
>>That's an adjective. Damn our language...there just
>>aren't enough words.
>
>Bearing in mind that English has one of (if not _the_)
>largest vocabularies in the world.
>
>Anyone got access to the OED? I bet there's some
>archaic word that fits. If not, I'm checking Klingon.
>I'm sure they've got something we can steal.

Sam. You work for a *university*. I bet ya dollars to doughnuts that they subscribe to the online OED. U of I did, UNM did....just go to any computer that's linked into their network, and go to www.oed.com

You should probably be able to get right in.

I still stand by my initial reaction that it's commonly used as a clause "with integrity" rather than creating a word "integritiness".

But the OED definitely outranks us all.

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Sam
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Date Posted: 12:45:27 05/15/03 Thu

>Sam. You work for a *university*. I bet ya dollars to
>doughnuts that they subscribe to the online OED. U of
>I did, UNM did....just go to any computer that's
>linked into their network, and go to www.oed.com

Ooo! I did not know that you could get into the oed site based on IP address. The only oed I ever used at UofI was the commandline unix one and I know we don't have that here.

HA!

HA-HA!

Integrous:

[f. L. integer, integr- + -OUS.]

Obs. rare.

Marked by integrity; = INTEGRE, INTEGRIOUS.

1657 W. MORICE Coena quasi Def. xx. 174 That an action be good, the
cause ought to be integrous.

>I still stand by my initial reaction that it's
>commonly used as a clause "with integrity" rather than
>creating a word "integritiness".

Yes, indeed, that is how it is commonly used. That was never in debate. I was looking for an _uncommon_ usage and found it. Woo!

>But the OED definitely outranks us all.

*BOOM!*

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