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honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak.

Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2.

wed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

A moral stain or blot. Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. Udall.

Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

rtened, then, nor cloud those looks. Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. M. Arnold.

oom to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. "I would call it fair play." Shak.

The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.

Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne.

Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.

Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

hout interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.