morality vs rectitude

morality

noun
  • A morality play. 

  • A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not. 

  • A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct. 

  • A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil. 

  • Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil. 

  • Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results. 

rectitude

noun
  • Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue. 

  • Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. 

How often have the words morality and rectitude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )