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Definition of Honesty

1. Noun. The quality of being honest.

2. Noun. Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration.

Definition of Honesty

1. n. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

Definition of Honesty

1. Noun. The act, quality, or condition of being honest; to be truthful ¹

2. Noun. Any of various crucifers in the genus ''Lunaria'', several of which are grown as ornamentals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Honesty

1. the quality of being honest [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Honesty

1. 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. "She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness." (Shak) 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. "That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." (1 Tim. Ii. 2) 3. Chastity; modesty. "To lay . . . Siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife." (Shak) 4. 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; L. Rediva is perennial honesty. Synonym: Integrity, probity, uprightness, trustiness, faithfulness, honor, justice, equity, fairness, candor, plain-dealing, veracity, sincerity. Origin: OE. Honeste, oneste, honor, OF. Honeste, oneste (cf. F. Honnetete), L. Honestas. See Honest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honesty

honest-to-goodness honest broker honest injun honest injuns honest to God honest woman honested honester honestest honestetee

honestie honesties honesting honestly honestness honesty (current term) 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 honey bear

Literary usage of Honesty

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

1. Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1847)
"ALL u vanity which is not honesty; —thus is it graven on the tomd; ... A just conjunction, godliness and honesty, ministering to both worlds, Well wed, ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"MERCANTILE honesty OF A TURK. In a late work—"A Year with Hie Turks,"—there is one passage that testifies admirably to Turkish honesty, while it shows how a ..."

3. Publications (1848)
"First, what is meant by godliness and honesty in ... Fourthly, whether a church, or congregation of Christians, may not live in godliness and honesty, ..."

4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"GR SPENCER: A CARTOONIST OF PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY AND AGGRESSIVE honesty. AN EDITORIAL SKETCH. I. THE ARTIST AND HIS DREAM. NO CARTOONIST of the great ..."

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