Moral idoneity
Is this sentence correct (and is it standard):
"In the stock market business, you will often find a lot of lack of moral idoneity."
Note: By 'lack of moral idoneity', I mean a lot of dishonesty.
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Christine Christie idoneity Where in the world did you get this word? I've never heard it in my (long) life. I had to look it up myself.
- Christine Christie idoneity Where in the world did you get this word?
- I've never heard it in my (long) life.
- I had to look it up myself.
- Very few dictionaries even list it, and then it is marked "archaic".
- Christine Christie In the stock market business, you will often find a lot of lack of moral idoneity.
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For what it's worth, the OED lists "idoneity" without comment. The parent word "idoneous", however, gets the "Now rare" flag. "Idoneity" falls into the OED's Frequency Band 2, the second-rarest, with other words that "would be unknown to most people" like "decanate" and "ennead". If you ask me, it has to be well down the low end of that Band. The citation from 1617 collat
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