Fun with the OED - Integrity

Integrity is something that gets mentioned alot these days. In its most moral definition, integrity means to be free from corruption  - to be innocent, sinless. It's much easier to define it than it is to live it.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first person to use "integrity" in English print is the Calvinist, Thomas Norton. Here is the general paraphrase of the quote from 1561: In this integrity, may had free will, whereby he might have attained eternal life. (I think this is a Calvin translation.)

It's funny that Thomas Norton has the distinction of the first person to use the word in print considering that he was famous for torturing and killing Catholics on the RACK (Yes, they were literally stretched to death.).  In fact, he was so prolific at killing people, he earned the name RACKMASTER General. Eventually he ended up in jail (in London Tower) for what equalled crimes against humanity.