honesty
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
brutal / devastating / searing honesty
1787, George Colman, Junior, Inkle and Yarico, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act 2, p. 45, O give me your plain dealing Fellows Who never from honesty shrink; Not thinking on all they shou’d tell us, But telling us all that they think.
Đồng nghĩa: candor, sincerity, candor, frankness, honesty, sincereness, sincerity, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Honor; decency, propriety.
Đồng nghĩa: integrity, rectitude, uprightness, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty, honor, integrity, probity, propriety, rectitude, righteousness, rightfulness, saintlikeness, saintliness, seemlihood, seemliness, uprightness, virtuousness
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Chastity.
c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Act V, Scene 1, in Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, New York: Appleton, 1890, Volume 2, p. 669, […] Oh, these vild women, That are so ill preservers of men’s honours, They cannot govern their own honesties!
Đồng nghĩa: chasteness, continence
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(countable)Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).
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From Middle English honeste (honour, integrity), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté). honest. Displaced native sōþfæstnes and non-native prodonomee, from prodomie. The plant is named so after the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods.