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honesty
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté) (honest +? -y); the plant, from the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n?sti/, /??n?st?/
- (RP dated) IPA(key): /???n?st?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???n?sti/
Noun
honesty (countable and uncountable, plural honesties)
- (uncountable, countable) The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
- academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
- brutal / devastating / searing honesty
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- There’s no trust,
- No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
- All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
- 1787, George Colman, Junior, Inkle and Yarico, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act 2, p. 45,[2]
- 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.
- 1883, Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua, London: Methuen, 5th edition, 1916, Act I, p. 20,[3]
- [...] Are you honest, boy?
- Then be not spendthrift of your honesty,
- But keep it to yourself; in Padua
- Men think that honesty is ostentatious, so
- It is not of the fashion.
- 1965, George Steiner, “Dying is an Art” in Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman, New York: Atheneum, 1986, p. 295,
- To those who knew her and to the greatly enlarged circle who were electrified by her last poems and sudden death, she had come to signify the specific honesties and risks of the poet’s condition.
- (uncountable, countable, obsolete) Honor; decency, propriety.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3,[4]
- Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Timothy 2.2,[5]
- [...] that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3,[4]
- (uncountable, countable, obsolete) Chastity.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- [...] spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife [...]
- 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!
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- (countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly Lunaria annua.
Antonyms
- dishonesty
Derived terms
- honesty is the best policy
- in all honesty
- maiden's honesty (Clematis vitalba)
Translations
References
- honesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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fealty
English
Alternative forms
- fielty
Etymology
From Middle English fealtye, feaute, feawte, feute, fewte, from Anglo-Norman fëalté and Old French fëauté, fëuté, from Latin fid?lit?s (“faithfulness”). Doublet of fidelity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?lti/
Noun
fealty (countable and uncountable, plural fealties)
- Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
- Synonyms: fidelity, allegiance, faithfulness
- The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
Related terms
- fidelity
Translations
Anagrams
- featly
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