We live in a purist age, one that prizes completeness and the composer’s version, often his first version, over revisions. … Such thinking is rectitudinous in that it tries to give us the composer’s ”true” thoughts, unbesmirched by intervening time or even the composer’s own reconsiderations. (John Rockwell, “Reverberations,” The New York Times, 3/19/2004.)
This word can also be a synonym for sincere, moral or truthful, when used in the sense of being honest and morally correct.
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