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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
honesty
n 1: the quality of being honest [syn: honesty, honestness]
[ant: dishonesty]
2: southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant
purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods
that are used for indoor decoration [syn: honesty, silver
dollar, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, Lunaria
annua]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF.
honest['e], onest['e] (cf. F. honn[^e]tet['e]), L. honestas.
See Honest, a.]
1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness;
decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
--Shak.
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2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness
and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.;
integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or
guile.
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That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all
godliness and honesty. --1 Tim. ii.
2.
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3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer.
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To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's
wife. --Shak.
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4. (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 and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common
honesty; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.
Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness;
faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor;
plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Lunaria \Lunaria\ prop. n.
A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family,
including the herb honesty (Lunaria annua), which is also
called moonwort and lunary.
Syn: genus Lunaria.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
HONESTY. That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne
doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit d'autrui.
2. The very object of social order is to promote honesty, and to
restrain dishonesty; to do justice and to prevent injustice. It is no less a
maxim of law than of religion, do unto others as you wish to be done by.
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Thesaurus Results for honesty:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity, blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character, cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness, disinterestedness, equitableness, equity, erectness, estimableness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, genuineness, good character, goodness, guilelessness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, impartiality, inartificiality, incorruption, ingenuousness, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalism, naturalness, nobility, objectivity, openness, outspokenness, photographic realism, principles, probity, pureness, purity, realism, realness, rectitude, reliability, reputability, respectability, righteousness, scrupulousness, sincerity, stainlessness, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness, trustworthiness, truth to nature, truthfulness, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspeciousness, unspottedness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity, verisimilitude, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness |
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Common Misspellings > |
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