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Definition of Honester
1. honest [adj] - See also: honest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honester
Literary usage of Honester
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... created to prevent his falling into a ditch as he goes home at night, a wiser
and more rational being ; and I am sure an honester than any of them. Oh ! ..."
2. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"... he had selected the depositary, then the action was only for the single value.
It was his own fault not to have chosen an honester man. (See Bk. iii. ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... likewise prevailed with him rather to keep the sheriff alive, and to carry
him with them to redeem an honester man out of the hands of their enemies. ..."
4. Burnet's History of My Own Time by Gilbert Burnet (1897)
"Morley was thought always the honester man of the two, as Sheldon was certainly
the abler man. The first point in debate was, whether concessions 178 should ..."
5. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"Dart Street ! Oh, I know where that is," he said. " A regular low, wretched place,
but honester than some such. It's not over far. ..."
6. The National: A Library for the People by W.J. Linton (1839)
"... evil counsellors, and, for the prosper your counsels. sake of the quiet
progression of National Good, to replace you by honester and more efficient men. ..."
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