Definition of Honestness

1. Noun. The quality of being honest.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Honestness

honest-to-god
honest-to-goodness
honest broker
honest injun
honest injuns
honest to God
honest woman
honested
honester
honestest
honestetee
honestie
honesties
honesting
honestly
honestness (current term)
honesty
honesty is the best policy
honewort
honeworts
honey
honey-bag
honey-do list
honey-flower
honey-mouthed
honey-pot ant
honey-pot ants
honey-tongued
honey badger
honey badgers

Literary usage of Honestness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Spider and the Fly: Together with an Attributed Interlude Entitled by John Heywood (1908)
"Well then, good master ant (quoth the butter- fly), We agree that the show of one honestness here Upon the ten flies' part showeth more shin- ingly Than on ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"... the day will come when he will be regarded as the best writer who is content to express his thought with Saxon honestness, as " a plain, ..."

3. The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier: In Seven Volumes by John Greenleaf Whittier (1889)
"... and caring little for the clothing of it, loved the Herald of Freedom for its honestness and earnestness, and its bold rebukes of the wrong, ..."

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