probity
honesty and moral uprightness
Root
- prob: test, prove, approve, or worth
Other words with the prob root
- approbation: approval or praise
- probable: likely to be true or happen
- prove: to show that something is true
- reprobate: morally unprincipled person
Probity is character that passes the test.
The judge was respected for her probity.
Probity sounds abstract until you make it a test word. A person with probity can be tested and trusted; the character holds up.