Meaning of honesty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name.
2. The act, quality, or condition of being honest
3. The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
   countable, uncountable
4. Honor; decency, propriety
5. used to express mild anger etc. Honestly! That was a stupid thing to do! eerlik waar بِصَراحه! كَلِمَة تُسْتَعْمَل للتعبير عن غَضَب خَفيف наистина! francamente vážně! wirklich ærligt talt! για Όνομα Του Θεού! (επιφ.) hay que ver tõepoolest واقعاً که todellakin tout de même! באמת! हल्का गुस्सा जाहिर करने के लिए उपयोग होता है Stvarno! isten bizony! sungguh! heyrðu mig nú!/samt sem áður! (ma insomma!) 全く 정말, 참으로 iš tikrųjų! goda vārds! terus terang werkelijk! herlighet! واقعاُ چی francamente nu ...
   etc
6. Honor; decency, propriety.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. Chastity.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. Chastity
9. Surely, if you own up to something, you should be praised for your honesty, not punished. eerlikheid شَرَف، صِدْق честност honestidade poctivost, upřímnost die Ehrlichkeit ærlighed τιμιότηταhonestidad ausus صداقت rehellisyys honnêtetéבכנות ईमानदारी poštenje, iskrenost becsület(esség) kejujuran heiðarleiki onestà 正直 정직 sąžiningumas godīgums; atklātība kejujuran eerlijk-, oprechtheidærlighet, oppriktighet, redelighetuczciwość صداقت honestidade cinste честность poctivosť poštenost poštenje ärlig...
10. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).
    countable
11. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua)
12. The quality or condition of being honest; integrity.
13. Truthfulness; sincerity: in all honesty.
14. Archaic Chastity.
    Archaic
15. Botany A Eurasian plant (Lunaria annua) in the mustard family, cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round, flat, papery, silver-white seedpods. Also called money plant, satin flower.
    Botany
16. the condition of being honest
17. sincerity or fairness
18. archaic virtue or respect
    archaic
19. (Plants) Also called: lunary, moonwort or satinpod a purple-flowered SE European plant, Lunaria annua, cultivated for its flattened silvery pods, which are used for indoor decoration: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
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Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“1787, George Colman, Junior, Inkle and Yarico, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act 2, p. 45, 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.”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

“I admire unvarnished honesty, which is scarce. And like everything else that's increasingly scarce, it behooves us to hoard our stash.”

“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.”

“[…] 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!”

“Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.”

“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.”

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