justice vs rectitude

justice

noun
  • Correctness, conforming to reality or rules. 

  • Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another. 

  • A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name. 

  • The state or characteristic of being just or fair. 

  • The civil power dealing with law. 

  • The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing. 

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 justice and rectitude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )