On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Mark Tiller wrote: #You can talk about honesty and integrity, which becomes honest #and.....What? A pain in the .... Not the person, the language. We don't HAVE an adjective for "integrity" except "integral", which is so firmly established with specific meanings as to exclude this particular metaphorical one. People say "a person of integrity". Actually, I'm most used to seeing "a man of integrity" -- it's a cliche -- and "a woman of integrity" is the obvious counterpart. You probably wouldn't want to say "... person ..." except in an indefinite case, where the individual is indefinite or not identified: We need a person of integrity in this position. I was informed of this by a person of integrity, whose veracity is unquestionable. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel