Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TEG'RI-TY, n. [Fr. integrité; L. integritas, from integer.]

1. Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution of the United States guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire.
2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. Integrity comprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable. Buckminster.
3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, inimpaired state; as, the integrity of language.