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Word Meanings - CANDOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Whiteness; brightness; usullied purity; innocence. Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger. 2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom

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1. Whiteness; brightness; usullied purity; innocence. Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger. 2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

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  • HONESTY
    Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • INTEGRITY
    1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
  • CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
    The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
  • COMPLETENESS
    The state of being complete.
  • HONOR
    1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
  • HONORARY
    1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
  • HONORLESS
    Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
  • HONORARIUM; HONORARY
    An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
  • CANDOR
    1. Whiteness; brightness; usullied purity; innocence. Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger. 2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom
  • HONORER
    One who honors.
  • PROBITY
    Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope. Syn. -- Probity, Integrity. Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by the performance of those obligations,
  • ENTIRENESS
    1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench. 2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. Entireness in preaching the gospel.
  • HONORIFIC
    Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.
  • PARITY
    The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. "No parity of principle." De Quincey. Equality of length and parity of numeration. Sir T. Browne.
  • HONORABLY
    1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden. 2. Decently; becomingly. "Do this message honorably." Shak. Syn. --
  • RECTITUDE
    1. Straightness. Johnson. 2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice. 3. Right
  • DISHONESTY
    1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
  • FISSIPARITY
    Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
  • DISPARITY
    Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor.
  • DISHONOR
    The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
  • OMNIPARITY
    Equality in every part; general equality.
  • GEMMIPARITY
    Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.
  • DISHONORABLE
    1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
  • SCISSIPARITY
    Reproduction by fission.

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