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Definition of Honestness
1. Noun. The quality of being honest.
Generic synonyms: Righteousness
Specialized synonyms: Scrupulousness, Integrity, Incorruption, Incorruptness, Incorruptibility, Candidness, Candor, Candour, Directness, Forthrightness, Frankness, Good Faith, Straightness, Truthfulness
Attributes: Square, Straight, Corrupt, Crooked
Derivative terms: Honest, Honest, Honest, Honest
Antonyms: Dishonesty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honestness
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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