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truth-telling

noun

Etymology

From truth + telling.

  1. derived from *dol-✻ — “calculation, fraud”
  2. derived from *talą✻
  3. inherited from *taljaną✻
  4. inherited from *talljan✻
  5. inherited from tellan — “to count, tell”
  6. inherited from tellen — “to count, tell”
  7. suffixed as telling — “tell + ing”
  8. formed as truth-telling — “truth + telling”

Definitions

  1. The act of telling the truth.

  2. Telling the truth

    Telling the truth; honest, frank.

    • Each self-denying single woman, like the heroine of “Some Tame Gazelle,” Pym’s first novel, is deemed “fortunate in needing very little to make her happy,” though the blunt, truthtelling housekeeper generally knows better.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for truth-telling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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