honesty Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the quality of being honest
honestness.
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noun southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration
money plant; Lunaria annua; silver dollar; satinpod; satin flower.
WordNet
Hon"es*ty noun
Etymology
OE.Definitions
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Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. Obs. Chaucer.She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak.
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The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2.
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Chastity; modesty. Chaucer.To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.
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(Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary andmoonwort .Lunaria biennis is common honesty;L. rediva is perennial honesty.Syn. -- Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.