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honesty

noun
/ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/UK/ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/US/ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/CA/ˈɔn.ɪ.sti/

Etymology

From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté) (honest + -y); the plant, from the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes; and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie.

  1. derived from honesté
  2. inherited from honeste — “honour, integrity”

Definitions

  1. The act, quality, or condition of being honest.

    • academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
    • brutal / devastating / searing honesty
    • There’s no trust, / No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, / All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

  2. Honor

    Honor; decency, propriety.

    • Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?
    • Fellovves in armes faithfull and valiant, / I thanke you for your paines and honeſties, […]
    • […] that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

  3. Chastity.

    • […] 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 […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

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

      Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).

      • She thought a minute, then stepped nimbly back into her cottage; and what she came out with at last was, a sprig of dry leaves, round as shillings, white as paper, quivering on a few thin stalks that looked ready to snap. / It was honesty.

    2. A female given name.

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Derived

annual honesty, honesty bar, honesty box, honesty is the best policy, honesty jar, in all honesty, intellectual honesty, maiden's honesty, overhonesty, unhonesty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at honesty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01honesty02honest03swindling04swindled05swindle06fraudulent07dishonest

A definitional loop anchored at honesty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at honesty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA