Saturday 4 June 2011

My Words of the Day

autonomous(au¦tono|mous)

adjective:
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs:
the federation included sixteen autonomous republics having the freedom to act independently:
school governors are legally autonomous(in Kantian moral philosophy) acting in accordance with one‘s moral duty rather than one’s desires. Compare with heteronomous.

integrity(in¦teg|rity)
noun
[mass noun]
1 the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles:
a gentleman of complete integrity: the state of being whole and undivided:
upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty: the condition of being unified or sound in construction:
the structural integrity of the novel: internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data:

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